reata
Example Sentences
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In one hand she carried a greenhide reata.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Victoriano, loosen the reata off Mr. Darrell's arms.”
From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.
No, sir; we cannot loosen that reata while you are sitting down.
From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.
When the man who had been sent for the reata returned, the rustlers set out after the prisoner and found they were five minutes too late.
From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)
Then he followed the path he had galloped with the reata around his body, and came to the road where he had met the Don and tried to strike him.
From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.
