He was already saddled and a hackamore was twisted round his nose.
All men were his enemies, and at John's approach he struck out with his fore feet, but the boy avoided them and caught the hackamore close up to the head.
The pony, with hackamore dangling, raced across the plain toward the hills.
Collie, using both hands, swung the hackamore across the outlaw's neck and tugged.
Then the younger man, talking to her meanwhile, slipped off the bridle and adjusted a hackamore in its place.
Then with the animal's hackamore in his hand, he mounted and rode to join Hugh.
Now catch the big dun," said Hugh, and in a few minutes Jack had him, and the hackamore was put on him.
Lying by each saddle was its lash rope and cinch, its sling rope and the hackamore for the animal.
After this was done, the saddles were taken off, the horses, with their hackamore shanks tied up, were turned into the hay corral, and Hugh and Jack went back to the storeroom.
Then he put the hackamore on it and took it out to the gate and tied it to the fence.
A hackamore with a piece of halter rope attached to it hung across the upper bar.
Gently she worked the hackamore over his nose and above his ears, and when it was safely in place she breathed a deep sigh of relief and throwing her arms about his neck pressed her cheek to his.
Tying the hackamore about her waist, she took a single deep breath of reassurance and stepped out into the river.
To have attempted to place a hackamore upon any of the wild creatures in the corral would have been the height of foolishness--only a well-sped riata in the hands of a strong man could have captured one of these.
Here he deposited the packs one by one; then he took hold of the hackamore again and said to Jack, "Go and get your rope and bring it here, and tie it round this horse's neck in a bowline.
You better take off your boots and rub some feeling into your feet while I make a hackamore for that horse.
He wore no spurs; and as for Surry, he had no bridle and bit, but a hackamore instead.
Dade went on tying the hackamorewith a haste that might be called anxious.
Evans had flanked the roan's course and he now leaned from the saddle and seized the hackamore rope; as Blue scrambled to his feet he took two quick turns of the rope and snubbed his head short to the saddle horn.
As Blue regained his feet Harris stepped into the saddle and rose with him, the hackamore rope trailing loose under the horse's feet.
Harris took a short hold on the rope reins of the hackamore with his left hand, cramped the horse's head toward him and gripped the mane, his right hand on the horn, and swung gently to the saddle, easing into it without a jar.
He had fashioned a hackamore for each and they stood tied to the corral bars.
You see;" was the reply, as Antonio gathered up the reins of the hackamore and put his foot in the stirrup.
You ought to put a hackamore on him, and then pass the rope under your leg and take a turn of it round the saddle horn.
While they were talking, Joe had spread the hackamore, and in a moment the horse's head had been lifted from the ground and the hackamore slipped over it.
Maybe;" said Antonio, who had just come from the stable carrying on one arm his saddle, blanket, hackamore and quirt.
But I can tell you more in five minutes by showing you, than I can in an hour by talking, so let's move on; but first we'll make a hackamore for that horse of yours.
You don't want a bridle, but a ropehackamore like this--Spanish style.
Then let them run as hard as they want, and on a sudden reach down your arm and catch the hackamore short, close up by the mouth, and jerk them round quick and heavy at full speed.
He sunk his head and redoubled his efforts, as with quirt in one hand and hackamore in the other the cowboy lashed his shoulders while his spurs raked the animal to a bloody foam.
Up came the hand and the rawhide hackamore slipped slowly into place.
Then with the enthusiasm at its height, the man jerked at his hackamore knot, and the next moment the horse's head was free and the rider rode "on his balance" without the sustaining grip on the hackamore rope to hold him firm in his saddle.
The Texan rode with one hand gripping the hackamore rope and the other his quirt which stung and bit into the frenzied animal's shoulders each time he hit the ground.
The cowboy who had him in tow took an extra dally around the saddle horn as the Texan, hackamore in hand, felt his way inch by inch along the taut lead-rope.
The rider leaned forward and his hands worked on the head of his mount until the hackamore also came free and was tossed aside.
No curb restrained him, not even a bit; the light hackamore could not have held him for an instant, but the voice of the rider kept him in hand.
Presently the riders returned, and Phil, when he had removed saddle, blanket and hackamore from his pupil, seated himself on the edge of the watering trough beside the Dean.
Another thicker and softer rope was knotted so that it could not slip about the now sweating neck, and fashioned into a hackamore or halter about the animal's nose.
When at last hackamore and saddle were in place, and the bay stood trembling and sweating, Phil wiped the perspiration from his own forehead and turned to the stranger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hackamore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
