reata
Example Sentences
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Then he followed the path he had galloped with the reata around his body, and came to the road where he had met the Don and tried to strike him.
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
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 Emerson Hough
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 Robert Wesley Amick
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 Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie) Bechdolt
He looked down to his breast surprised, and there the coil of a reata held him in an iron grip, and he could not move.
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
