We also tried some charred lamb skewers with great, spicy, cucumber riata. From Wordnik.com. [Portland Trip « I HEART BACON] Reference
We will fashion a halter and tie a post to the end of a riata for her to drag. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
With a riata over his shoulder to rope some great horses from the herd, he looked forward to the adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
Deuces tied the riata off and in the gathering darkness dropped to his hands and knees to measure the width between his scalp and the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
It was the riata with which he had picketed the pony. From Wordnik.com. [Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail] Reference
He looked at my hand, which still unconsciously held the broken riata. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
"I would not that you should hold the riata," said Consuelo petulantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
They'll string a riata across the road and hold up the car, most likely. From Wordnik.com. [Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail] Reference
He mounted his own horse and took a turn of the riata round the saddle-horn. From Wordnik.com. [Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail] Reference
He passed the free end of the riata about them both, tying them close together. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
He leaped from his pony, the coiled riata in his hand as he touched the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail] Reference
Demon Vaquero, whose terrible riata was fully as potent as the whaler's harpoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
As she spoke, she began uncoiling the rawhide riata which was tied to her saddle. From Wordnik.com. ['Me--Smith'] Reference
And after Pete got scrambled by a riata, and a few more things of that kind happened. From Wordnik.com. [The Readjustment] Reference
Meanwhile, Concho the redoubtable, Concho the fortunate, spared neither riata nor spur. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Mine] Reference
One of them had a riata snatched from a saddle-pommel, and with this they tried to bind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference
He would have taken the riata which she was still holding, but she motioned him to precede her. From Wordnik.com. [From Sand Hill to Pine] Reference
"Toro!" shouts George, with vaquero enthusiasm, and the band opens a way for the swinging riata. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
"Can you remember," he one day asked her, "what time it was when you cut the riata and got away?". From Wordnik.com. [In the Carquinez Woods] Reference
Beneath him the trailing riata had as noiselessly vanished as if it had been indeed a gliding snake. From Wordnik.com. [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference
He had met hundreds of such horsemen before, and caparisoned and accoutred like this, even to the riata. From Wordnik.com. [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference
A carbine lay across his saddle-horn, a riata was coiled beside his leg, a cartridge-belt circled his waist. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Sunset] Reference
The loop of the riata fell wide over him, immediately to be jerked tight, binding his arms tight to his side. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
He cannot loose himself, for his riata is fast to the saddle; the dragons cannot help, for he is drag so fast. From Wordnik.com. [From Sand Hill to Pine] Reference
At the saddle horn, in its sling, hung the riata, the "rope" without which no cowman ever stirs abroad, but which. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
'And you others stand ready to cut this accursed riata, for then will be the time for me to lead you in your rush. From Wordnik.com. [A Set of Six] Reference
Mrs. Beasley, however, complacently resumed her dish-washing, and Ira returned to his riata in the adjoining room. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Trail and Town] Reference
Tossed carelessly in the corner appeared some blankets topped by a few straggling black horse tails, like an unstranded riata. From Wordnik.com. [On the Frontier] Reference
It comes from the twisted horsehair rope of a riata, and not from the braided cowhide thongs of the regular lasso of a vacquero. From Wordnik.com. [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference
He unfastened the riata from its sling, shook loose the noose, and moved forward in the direction in which he had last seen the buckboard. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
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