riata
Example Sentences
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So Williams plans to stop calling a rope a rawhide riata and not use words like hackamore, tapaderas and cinch ring.
From Time Magazine Archive
He felt himself beyond all human aid, And trusted to the saints—and, for that matter, To some weak spot in Felipe's riata.
From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various
Dick jingled his spurs and swung his riata, Jovita bounded forward, and in another moment they swept into Tuttleville, and drew up before the wooden piazza of "The Hotel of All Nations."
From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Robert Haven Schauffler
Then an ordinary riata is only fourteen or sixteen yards long—twenty yards is a very long one.
From The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring by Edward Sylvester Ellis
I felt thankful that they had not devoured my rawhide riata.
From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various
