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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 63 words
A pretty description of something very like an arquebuse shot. The ten thousand Greeks in their long and famous retreat met with a nation who very much galled them with great and strong bows, carrying arrows so long that, taking them up, one might return them back like a dart, and with them pierce a buckler and an armed man through and through.
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