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)
In one hand she carried a greenhide reata.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
A reata fastened to each horn and hind foot of the animal was about the saddle horn of a boy, and the raging bellowing creature was held thus at safe distance from all.
From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley
Victoriano, loosen the reata off Mr. Darrell's arms.”
From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.
Si Helena Belmont was my daughter, I take the green hide reata to her every morning; but Belmont so soffit, the school is better for her.
From The Californians by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
