reata
Example Sentences
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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)
Victoriano, loosen the reata off Mr. Darrell's arms.”
From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.
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
They sent one of their number to get a reata for that purpose.
From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)
He was still whirling as if from absent-minded habit the loop of his reata.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
