The cowpunchers selected one broncho each and after a half hour's hawling, pulling and coaxing succeeded in hitching them to the coach.
Without another word he walked over to where the drover was standing and informed him that he would take the bet, provided he would have his cowpunchershitch the little devils to the coach.
But there must have been lots of cowpunchers on hand, so that if the cattle stampeded--" Dig urged.
But didn't the cowpunchers hurry 'em on, and crack their quirts and shoot guns to hurry them and all that?
The dominant leader showed in every line and it was no wonder that the cowpunchers feared and respected him.
But cowpuncherswe ain't going to make no trouble for you.
She swept the forms of the cowpunchers with one of those all-embracing glances of which few great men and all excited women are capable.
They glided away as though the horses of the cowpunchers were running fetlock deep in mud; they shot up the slope towards the distant stallion like six bright arrows.
It seemed that the wind caught him up and buoyed him from stride to stride, and the cowpunchers with hungry, burning eyes watched without a word until the grey and the chestnut blurred on the horizon and dipped out of view together.
He had even sensed, behind him, the rising of the cowpunchers as the girl talked but at this appeal to their spirit of fair-play they settled down again.
They could only take him by tying every hoof and dragging him, and such force Marianne would not let the cowpunchers use.
Inside, the cowpuncherssat about enjoying a before-dinner smoke and the coolness which the evening wash had brought to their wind-parched skins.
In fact, the rage of the cowpunchers was steadily growing.
And though, as his cowpunchers swore, his hand was as swift to draw a gun as ever and his eye as steady on a target, he had gradually lost interest in even his revolvers.
When Alcatraz actually started back towards the place where the cowpunchers had dropped the pursuit, she threw herself across his way, striving to turn him with bared teeth and flirting heels.
The cowpunchers could have shot him as he veered back; they could have salted him with lead as he flashed broadside, but the orders of their chief restrained them.
Meantime, Red Jim looked at Hervey and looked at the cowpunchers behind Hervey.
A breath like the faint sighing of wind reached them; the cowpunchers were resigned, and started now to roll their Durham.
He ran out and stopped a wrangling noise of the cowpunchersseveral times.
No semblance of a smile altered the faces of the cowpunchers around the table, but glances of vague meaning were interchanged.
The cowpunchers manned a bucket line, but the source of water was far away, the line too long, and the flames gained faster than they could be quenched.
He lengthened his stride going down the long hall to the dining-room, and entering, he found the cowpunchers about to take their places around the big table.
Even in their high-heeled boots the cowpunchers ran fast.
Harshaw organized a company of rangers made up mostly of cowpunchers from the river ranches.
To prevent this the cowpunchers kept up as lively a fire as possible.
Using their spurs to dig with, the cowpunchers deepened the hollow and packed the loose dirt around the rim in order to heighten the rampart.
The bugle wakened them at dawn, but a good many of the cowpunchers were already up.
Half a dozen cowpunchers bent on sport drifted in his direction.
Three or four cowpunchers had been celebrating the declaration of war.
A row of cowpunchers were lined up in front of the bar.
He had mounted it and was riding off when suddenly the cowpunchers appeared, and as soon as their eyes fell on the horse accused the German of stealing it.
As he spoke the group about the tree parted for a minute as the cowpunchers composing it gazed curiously at the auto, which was nearing them.
This was a fortunate happening for the boys, for the cowpunchers were now compelled finally to give up their chase of the automobile and head off after the stampeded cattle.
If the cowpunchers could have made a get-away, it's a cinch that they'd have headed for the ranch an' brought back enough men with them to make their persuasion plenty urgent.
In the distance a couple of cowpunchers could be seen in front holding up the lead of the bunch.
When the cowpunchers rides back, honors is even, an' each side is one man short.
Three cowpunchers and a cook with the chuck wagon made up the gang.
When the cowpunchershad eaten supper, they came over to our tent to purchase supplies of tobacco and cartridges.
On the other bank of the river were cowpunchers with their herds waiting to cross also.
The moccasins and the white nightgown were the sum and substance of her apparel, and the cowpunchers stood up around the table to admire her spunk.
The cowpunchers would scatter at the first sign of Barry, at the first shrill of his ill-omened whistling.
The cowpunchers howled with delight as Chunky, covered with dust, wiping the sand from his eyes, staggered angrily to his feet.
Half a dozen cowpunchers had plunged their ponies into the river, and were swimming toward the spot where Tad had been seen to go down, while the foreman was shouting frantic orders at them.
The air seemed full of flying hoofs, and for the moment there was a lively scattering of cowpunchers and Pony Riders.
The cowpunchers began to laugh as they rode up and observed the boy's tattered condition.
The Pony Riders dashed up to the waiting cowpunchers with a brave showing of horsemanship, and sprang from their saddles their eyes glowing with excitement and anticipation.
The meal was nearly half-finished when the cowpunchers were startled by a volley of revolver shots accompanied by a chorus of shrill yells.
The cowpunchers scrambled to their feet with growls of disapproval, demanding to know what the row was about.
Stallings leaped from the animal's head and the cowpunchers made a quick sprint to remove themselves from the danger zone.
By this time the cowpunchers had joined in the shouting.
He did not need the warning cry of the cowpunchers to tell him what the pony was about to do.
There's a Diamond D steer in that bunch," Tad informed one of the cowpunchers as he rushed a big, white steer out.
A great shout of approval went up from cowpunchersand Pony Riders.
Off toward the camp a succession of flashes like fireflies told the cowpunchers on guard that their companions were racing to their assistance as fast as horseflesh could carry them.
The other cowpunchers set up a great jeering yell as they saw the unhorsing of their companion by a mere boy, while the villagers and country folks laughed as loudly as they dared.
He turned in his saddle and laughingly asked her: "How much time could your cowpunchers afford to devote to the Muses, Miss Grace?
The two cowpuncherssneaked out sheepishly and once out of hearing, Red swore wonderingly.
It was nearly ten o'clock before the chicken-hearted sheriff deemed the two cowpuncherssufficiently drunk enough to take chances with.
The fall round-up would be over by that time and work is scarce for unattached cowpunchers in the winter.
Time hanging heavy on their hands, the two cowpunchers strolled up the street in the search of diversion; at the Shoo Fly dance-hall the revelry seemed most promising and they went in to investigate.
Cowpunchers who are afraid of any horse don't hold their jobs long, Miss Carter.
Only skillful cowpunchers could have made their way through that maddened, seething, wild herd of cattle.
The cowpunchers looked curiously at the drooping figure on the horse that followed Dave.
It won't be the first time, though we cowpunchers are more used to a saddle than we are to our own legs.
Some of thecowpunchers are beginnin' to think I'm a little partial to Jim Silent's crowd.
One by one the cowpunchers gave back, foot by foot, softly, until they stood close to the opposite wall of the saloon.
His general store and saloon had been bought out by old Joe Cumberland, who declared a determination to clear up the landscape, and thereby plunged the cowpunchers in gloom.
Dan, in the meantime, was swept into the saloon by an influx of the cowpunchers that left only Lee Haines outside with Kate.
Sure enough, that was when Dan ran away again, and when I sent my cowpunchers south after him, they found him and brought him back.
You should of done something while they was only a half-dozen cowpunchers in town.
The bearded man spoke again, but though a dozen cowpunchers were close by no one heard his voice except the man at his side.
There was a pause after this speech, and during the quiet the cowpunchers were passing from hand to hand the marshal's badge which Calder, as he died, had given to Dan.
Cowpunchers who had known him all his life now avoided his eyes, but caught him with side glances.
And when, in the course of my prowling about, I ran into a half dozen hilarious cowpunchers I clean forgot Mr. Tupper and the unkind things he had promised to do to me.
The cowpunchers at the pen were mounting their ponies and racing after the black steer, but they were too far away to stop him.
A band of cowpunchers rode in, with yells and pistol shots.
No cowpunchers these, but a party of horsemen and horsewomen who might have just ridden out of the Central Park bridle-path at Fifty-ninth Street or out of the Fens in Boston's Back Bay section.
The high-heeled boots worn by cowpunchers are not easy footwear to walk in.
Are the cowpunchersjust the same as they used to be?
The cowpunchers flung their ponies down the sharp incline recklessly.
Cowpunchers are as full of larks as schoolboys on a holiday.
Half an hour later they saw the dust of the cowpunchers taking the trail for the berrendo.
But he had seen him only as one of a group of cowpunchers and not as an individual enemy, whereas it was quite certain that Go-Get-'Em Jim would recognize him.
When he and Lee emerged from the river-bed to the bank above, the first thing he saw was a group of cowpunchers shaking hands gayly with the two fugitives.
The cowpunchers had picked mounts, but it was plain they could not overhaul the Apaches before the Indians captured the girl.
Temporarily she took the two cowpunchers into her circle and browbeat them shamefully with an impudent little twinkle in her eyes.
At three o'clock the cowpunchers rode up for Lonny, bringing Hot Tamales, saddled.
Lonny's cowpunchers were stricken to silent horror by his mad deed.
The cowpunchers had adjusted their garb suitably from that prescribed for the range to the more conventional requirements of town.
He did not need to ask what Arizona cowpunchers would do to him under the circumstances.
Vaqueros brushed shoulders with Chinese laundrymen, cowpunchers with soldiers, peons with cattlemen from Arizona and Texas.
And the cowpunchers came racing down from the corrals to hurl themselves into the mêlée whooping and yelling, as only men of their craft can.
But the coming of the cowpunchers stemmed the tide and hurled them back on Fyles's force in their rear.
The cowpunchers talk to this day of the battle that followed.
Six cowpunchers of the Cibolo Ranch were waiting around the door of the ranch store.
The cowpunchers gave a yell of greeting and delight.
The cowpunchers saw that their boss was trying to make a man out of the strange animal that he had sent among them; and they tacitly organised themselves into a faculty of assistants.
Fortunately she was wearing a small pair of high-heeled boots such as cowpunchers use, and the stiff leather had broken the shock of the blow from the steel jaws.
But cowpunchers returning to the ranch from town reported that both Meldrum and Charlton had sworn revenge.
The names of the cowboys used are the actual nicknames of cowpunchers whom I worked with on Wyoming ranges twenty years ago, and will be recognized by lots of old-timers.
The cowpunchers entered the sick room with the subdued, gingerly tread of professional undertakers.
When you cowpunchers do get in, you surely make Rome howl," one of the deputies agreed, with a grin.
Four in the stray herd," Limber replied, and without further conversation they rode to the strays, where several neighbouring ranchers and a few cowpunchers sat on their ponies.
Four struggling cowpunchers sat in four creaking chairs and laboured until four pairs of huge hands were encased in bedraggled white kid gloves, which the owners surveyed with triumph.
You gotter put salt in, next," said Bronco, and the two cowpunchers darted to a cupboard where each captured a small bag of salt.
Inside the bunkhouse four cowpunchers slept serenely unconscious of the odour of freshly baking bread that drifted from the ranch kitchen.
Near the mountains four or five thousand head of bawling cattle, with cowpunchers dashing to and fro among them, gave the appearance of wildest confusion.
Ponies standing with dangling reins and hoofs buried fetlock deep in the fine, white alkali sand in front of the stores, told that many other cowpunchers from other ranches were in town.
Far and near, thecowpunchers lifted their voices in the gleeful shout, "Chuck's ready!
All talked at once; no one replied or listened, but it was a happy bunch of cowpunchers that slid along the wooden bench at the supper-table that night.
The sunlight filtering through the dust formed a golden mist in which the cowpunchers and their ponies were dimly silhouetted.
The eyes of thecowpunchers also stared at the paper-knife, as though hoping it would solve their problem.
The girl flushed with embarrassment as she faced the four cowpunchers of the Diamond H.
As he saw the fourcowpunchers in the doorway, he shrank back timidly and reached out his thin hand.
He avoided cowpunchers who wore rattlesnake bands on their hats or stretched the skin over the edge of the cantle of their saddles.
Were they Bar C cowpunchers come to take the law into their own hands, or were they his hoped-for rescuers?
With no delay whatever, Williams and his men and the Double A cowpunchers were headed for the ranchhouse, their horses running hard.
Sanderson had seen the oncoming riders, but he attached no importance to their appearance, for cowpunchers often rode in groups to some outlying camp, and these men might belong to some ranch in the vicinity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowpunchers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
