reata

Example Sentences

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One glance satisfied Sturges that Pilar had covered the vaquero, and he devoted the next few moments to dodging the 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

With a sudden flexile turn of a wrist that had thrown many a reata, he flung it straight through the open window.

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

Rhodes scowled and began uncoiling a reata in case it would be needed to tie Miguel in the saddle.

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

He was coiling the thin, braided hide reata, soft as a glove and strong as steel, which always hung at the Spanish saddle.

From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson