A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
1 Then the riata man must throw at a particular limb or projection.
2 Already Roy was taking the riata from its place below the saddle-horn.
3 He looked at my hand, which still unconsciously held the broken riata .
4 With a quick motion he snatched the riata from the cowboy's neck.
5 The lasso slips not much, but holds; the riata slips much and strangles.
6 The Spanish were armed with lances, pistols, and the deadly riata .
7 The black dodged skillfully, and the loop of Curly's riata missed the mark.
8 His hunting-knife had sheared at a stroke the riata round the engineer's neck.
9 Bent and stiff-thatmeans every muscle is like a rawhide riata .
10 E. S. I. Tied halfway down was a curiously worked riata .
11 No, for the noose of the riata was perhaps large,-whoknows?
12 There is not a vacquero in the whole rancho who has a horse-hair riata .
13 He passed the free end of the riata about them both, tying them close together.
14 A hair rope does not make a good riata .
15 A quick riata man can beat a fellow with a pistol at fairly close quarters.
16 Joe, loosinghis riata from the horse's neck, and coiling it carefully, considered a moment.
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