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 Loyal, C.

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

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)

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)

On either side rode a vaquero, with his reata fastened to the axle-tree.

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