reata

Example Sentences

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She could not prevent his exit, for she went back with the stone, but she had sprung to the open before he reached it himself, and was striking at him furiously with her reata.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

He ran back to the bronco and untied the reata from the tientos.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

It will be painful for Mrs. Darrell to see you as you are, and then you ought to have that reata off now, quickly.

From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.

Marto, crestfallen and silently anticipating the worst, was led out next; a reata passed around the saddle horn and circling his waist was fastened back of the saddle.

From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley

She caught the greenhide reata from the nail and went up the stair.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn