His saddle was cinched about the barrel of a big gray colt, one that could not have been more than five years old but showed enough power and breeding to attract attention in any horse-conscious community.
And with that cinched into place, the black stood quietly beside Croaker.
He tore the saddle from the fallen broncho and cinchedit on his own horse.
She slung the saddle over his back, cinched it up and thencinched it tighter as he let his breath out, and adjusted the bridle.
This settled, and while Sliver rode on down into the valley to free the anciano, Bull and Jake cinched the thieves securely in their saddles.
Having roped Sliver, ten minutes thereafter, from behind a convenient bush, he gagged and cinched him in his saddle, hustled him in by the back gate of the compound, had him lashed to his catre in their adobe before Lee and Bull arrived.
At the same moment a man leaped and seized her bridle while the leader cinched her feet under her horse's belly.
Then, in spite of angry protests that ended in tears, he cinched her little feet from stirrup to stirrup.
But Izus was an expert, and with many yards of palmetto rope finallycinched fast the loads.
I knelt, pulled off the fellow's belt, and cinched his hands behind his back with it.
Aluminum threads strip pretty easily, so it probably wasn't cinched up too hard.
The animal was unsaddled and taken to another corral, where a pack saddle was cinched on him, and he was left to spend the day there alone.
You must have cinched the horse up from the off side instead of from the near.
The two of them reached the corral just as Jack released Solano's foot from the rawhide loop that had held it high while Jack cinched the saddle in place.
So when our men from herd galloped in, we stripped their saddles from tired horses and cinched them to fresh ones, while they, that there might be no loss of time, bolted their dinners.
While the rest of us unloaded the wagon, McCann, who was swearing by both note and rhyme, unearthed his saddle from amongst the other plunder and cinched it on his nigh wheeler.
Then there was a hustling and borrowing of cartridges, while saddles were cinched on to horses as though human life depended on alacrity.
I've got Red cinched about as tight as you, my boy.
When he happened to meet you on the way, he would be plumb tickled, for that cinched things proper for him.
Finally, she got the saddle cinchedupon the nervous pinto and rode her out of the corral and away to the ranges for her usual round of the various camps.
None but Joe and Frances had ever bridled her or cinched the saddle on Molly.
It's because we're a set of damn fool farmers and have been cinched again.
Presley found the pony in the corral, cinched the saddle upon him, and went off over the Lower Road, going eastward at a brisk canter.
Chet gave the horses half an hour on the grass; then they cinched on the saddles so the animals wouldn't drink too much, and were soon splashing up the shallow edge of the stream.
They rode back to the brook, watered their horses, hid their outfit, save the serviceable camp axe and their guns, then cinched up and rode through the brook.
Then hecinched on the saddle, dropped his kerchief on the sod and picked it up with his teeth, Poke running like a wolf meanwhile.
He waited until Wade had stumbled out of sight, then cinched upon his horse the blankets that had served for couch during his vigil, mounted, and urged the animal through the woods, kicking heels into its flanks.
Tommy Eye cinched his worn belt one notch tighter over his thin haunches and buttoned his checkered wool jacket.
So we took off his saddle and bridle, cinched them on Mac, and, saying a sad farewell, hid our faces in our sleeves, and soon had climbed beyond his vision.
And after giving Job a kick which would have knocked the wind out of anything, he cinched him up again before he could recover himself, and then led him to drink.
It was just in front of this map that the corpse had been placed, when Rampike had cinched it into its chair for the night.
Slim made sure that his saddle was well cinched for they would be riding fast and hard.
They were intact and after watering Lightning he swung his own onto Lightning's back and cinched it firmly.
He dismounted and stripped off the saddle, cinched it on a second horse and let him stand, leading a third out to a snubbing post near the door of the blacksmith shop where he proceeded to put on his first set of shoes.
But while we've cinched Morrow we haven't been able to trace it back to you.
The one who wrangled put his rope on a horse and led him out, snubbed him to the saddle horn and frequently eared him as well, while the one who was to ride him out cinched on his saddle and mounted.
Saddles were hastily cinched on and the men rode off through the gloom, leaving Waddles and three others to pack and follow later in the day.
Wunpost sighed and cinched his packs and hit out across the flats for the mouth of Emigrant Wash.
In the droppin' of a sombrero they've cinched onto the professor, an' the only question left open is whether they'll string him up to the town windmill or the sign in front of the First National Bank.
Laying the saddle on swiftly, but gently, he cinched it strongly.
The boys nudged elbows while Mose threw the saddle on the cringing brute and cinched it till the pinto, full of suffering, drew great, quiet gulps of breath and groaned.
Langdon looked up, having cinched the girth tight, and took a step toward the two men.
Could he win at the weight, I whisperingly asked, as I cinched up the saddle girt' tight; He snuggled my hand as I gathered the rein, and I laughed when they talked of defeat.
A running series of questions were asked and answered; saddles were shaken out of gunny-sacks and cinched on waiting horses as though we were starting to a prairie fire.
Fortunately the supply of the latter was abundant, and while saddles were being cinched on horses, the cook and I divided the ammunition and distributed it among the men.
Besides, if the Sand Creek hold-up had bumped Dave off, he'd have cinched the pony.
But he climbed into the saddle which Jack had cinched for him.
Soon as I knew Lee and Boone made those tracks, I had it cinched that they were following the lateral to see where the robber was going.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cinched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
