reata

Example Sentences

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One of the riders of the Flying V Y had tried to drag the prisoner out with a reata.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

Taking down his reata as he rode he leapt quickly off his horse and ran out on the big flat rock from which they had often fished together.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

Morgan knew by the feel of it against his neck that it was a platted rawhide, such as the Mexicans term reata.

From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

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

Then quick as a flash Bet thought of the reata on Joy's saddle.

From The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure by Edholm, Lizette M.