Piangi, who has also met with the Punjab lasso, is discovered behind the scenes. From Wordnik.com. [I Phantom | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
The other lasso is of wire, which not only catches the fugitive, but knocks him senseless or cuts his head off, as the case may be. From Wordnik.com. [Six Months in Mexico] Reference
A lasso is a long rope, sometimes made of leather. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California] Reference
They are caught by means of a lasso, which is a rope with a noose at one end. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
A lasso was a rope with a noose at one end -- so! and it was used to catch wild horses, or anything else you happened to chase. From Wordnik.com. [Pixie O'Shaughnessy] Reference
On seeing her, Selkirk instinctively lays his hand on the lasso which is beside him. From Wordnik.com. [The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe] Reference
(This is closely related to the "lasso" method of selecting variables for linear regressions in statistics.). From Wordnik.com. [American Scientist Online] Reference
"They put me in a pink cowgirl outfit and taught me how to lasso, which is a good thing when you're getting married. From Wordnik.com. [AskMen.com - HOME PAGE] Reference
The standout scene: Jessica Alba working her lasso. From Wordnik.com. [THE CHECKLIST] Reference
"We ought to lasso some neighbors," she suggested once. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
Leaning out from the window he spun the lasso in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference
Many times Slone nervously uncoiled and recoiled his lasso. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
"I just swung my lasso and caught the steer before he caught you.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
He hauled on the lasso, pulling the stallion's head down and down. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
I also learned how to lasso a baby cow and then did the unthinkable. From Wordnik.com. [Leon Logothetis: Farm Life: Living off the land] Reference
"Six Apaches and three and a half Sioux with one throw of the lasso.". From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
To lasso the horse and check it suddenly when at a mad gallop like that?. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Winding one end of the lasso around his wrist, he gently raised himself. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
The lasso whirled above the colt, and the next instant closed around its throat. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
River, but was rescued by a Venezuelan officer, who drew him ashore with a lasso. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
They are wonderful riders and excel in the use of a peculiar lasso called the bolas. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The great horse was doomed to run into living flame or the whirling noose of a lasso. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Ever the deadeye, Freeman uses a lasso to tame the prairie virago Kate (Tracey Ullman). From Wordnik.com. [How The West Was Tamed] Reference
"We'd like our ponies," added Bert, "and you promised to show me some more how to lasso.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
It is one of the many interesting things you must learn on a cattle-ranche -- to use the lasso. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
With a wild whoop Slone leaped off Nagger, and, a lasso in each hand, he ran down the long bank. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
I essayed to throw the lasso, or lariat, of course, as one of the very first experiences in ranche life. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Of course Bert could not use a lasso of the regulation size, so one of the cowboys had made him a little one. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
You throw aside your practice rope, unwind the lasso from the horn of the saddle, and essay a "mounted" throw. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
You whirl your lasso round your head, and aim it at the horns of a harmless steer in the corral some yards away. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
At full speed they could cast their lasso about the horns of a bull, or so throw it as to catch any particular foot. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Slone held the taut lasso with his left hand, and with the right he swung the other rope, catching the noose round Wildfire's nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
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