I walked, while the little mare followed almost like a dog, often without my having to hold the lariat which served as halter.
They were much more likely to gnaw off the lariat with which the horse was tied, than to try to molest the steed himself.
That's the only way we can reach him," explained Lige, dangling the loop of the lariat in his hands as he looked from one to the other.
In a moment more the guide had thrown several strands of tough rawhide lariat about the body of the dazed mountaineer, binding the fellow's arms tightly to his side.
In my blanket I carried the other of ourlariat ropes.
Suddenly his quick ears detected the hiss of a lariat whistling through the air.
The lariat is a handy weapon, but to truly appreciate its merits one must be a prairie man.
One of the men produced an old lariat In a trice the great man's feet were fast.
Then a gruff voice bade him rise, and, as he silently obeyed, he was glad to feel that the gripping lariat was removed from his throat.
Seizing thelariat he gripped it tightly and proceeded to pass slowly, hand over hand, towards the beautiful, wild-eyed chestnut.
He shouted to Tuttle, who was just landing, and Tom threw the end of his lariatfar out into the middle of the stream.
Antone Colorow turned and came galloping back, his lariat in his hand.
The man's broken wrists had healed, but they had lost all their suppleness, and he could never throw the lariat again.
He patted her flanks and talked to her in Russian while he pulled up her lariat pin and set it in a new place.
I wonder if she wouldn't have scratched a little if we'd laid hold of that lariat rope!
Mrs. Shimerda had run to the animal, pulled up the lariat pin, and, when we came upon her, she was trying to hide the cow in an old cave in the bank.
The one pedestrian on the avenue who had dared seize the snake-writhing lariatthat trailed from its unyielding horn-hold had been thrown to a fall on the oiled asphalt before he could snub the rope about a tree.
Pape unlimbered his lariat for a throw calculated to bring down the red for hog-tying.
Early in the journey an old Indian told me how to keep the snakes from our beds, and that was to get a lariat made from the hair of a buffalo's neck and lay it entirely around the bed.
My snake-lariat was with the wagon, but I was too tired to think much of it.
I got the lariat and seldom went to sleep without being inside of its coil.
So far as the letter man's concerned, it'll be the altar or the windmill, Jack Moore an' a lariat or that preacher party you refers to.
Donald had brought his lariat along, under the belief that it might come in handy one way or another.
This creature the Latins had secured by a lariat over his head, and were dragging across the old rampart and into a street of the city.
The end of another lariat was passed through under their arms, around the body, and tied in a "bow-line hitch" behind the back.
He had found the rope, a long and costly lariat which he recognized as having once been the property of Jessica's father, and he secured it about an upright timber that he tested and saw was still firm.
The tunnel led to a cave, and in the cave there was a deep hole; and before I knew what he was doing, Ferd had slung a lariat about me and dropped me into it.
With an intuition of his fear, she promptly obeyed him and stood guard over thelariat lest Ferd should make a fresh attempt upon it.
At the end of a lariat trailed the Brazos pony, for Billy, laughing aside Bridge's pleas, was on his way to El Orobo Rancho to return the stolen horse to its fair owner.
Having gained the floor he pulled upon one end of the lariat until he had drawn it free of the bedpost above, when it fell into his waiting hands.
Looping the middle of the lariat over a bedpost Billy grasped both strands firmly and lowered himself through the aperture into the room beneath.
Here he pushed back the bed which he had drawn over the hole in the floor, dropped his two sacks through into the bank, and tying the brace to one end of the lariat lowered it through after the sacks.
Children of the Mexican herders begin practicing with the lariat as soon as they can coil a rope.
The lariatmay be of any length from twenty to eighty feet.
You will be surprised, if you try this, at the skill you will gain, and the pleasure the lariat will afford to yourself and companions.
She thanked the knights of the lariat the more warmly for her unjust suspicions.
I scents the aroma of dogma about Simpson in the way he throwed his conversational lariatat the yearling.
The river down there looked like a lariat a' runnin' after a broncho.
It is rather difficult," admitted that solidly constructed railroad president; "particularly since I personally favor the Lariat Center route.
The favorite route at present," pointed out Boise, "is from Marble Bluffs round by Lariat Center, across to Buffalo Canyon and up to Silver Ledge.
It will be enough to hold you by until we find out all that happened one snowy night when somebody fixed a lariat across a trail, and there was another affair up in the bush.
Now and then the horse stamped restlessly and tugged at the lariat that was pegged down within reach of Alton's arm, and once came up and looked down on him.
Hitch that lariat on to the prisoner's wrists, and keep a good hold on it, Constable Andersen.
Then a man crawled clear of the undergrowth, rose up, and stooped over the lariat with a knife in his hand.
Very well," returned Kiddie, slinging his coiled lariatover the horn of his saddle.
You that raced like mad inter One Tree Gulch an' dropped your lariat over Broken Feather?
He dropped the bridle over his pony's head, leapt from his saddle, gathered the coils of his lariat in his fist, and crept to the side of the trail.
When I slowed down on Laramie Plain and went back to slacken the lariat about his arms, I spoke to him in his own tongue.
He saw the lariat shoot out from the uplifted hand like a wriggling snake.
He was dragged for a little distance, but his hand was open, and the loops of the lariat uncoiled themselves as the horse plunged onward, leaving him behind.
Kiddie gripped his lariat ready to throw, but he did not throw it.
He came like a wild gust of wind, leaning over in his seat and slinging his supple lariat above his flapping hat as he came.
A lariat carried upon the saddle pommel will be found useful in a dozen ways, and may be utilized for picketing horses.
A small belt axe that weighs about two pounds, with sheath, a lariat and a few feet of rope will be required.
Felipe bridled him in a moment and then sprang across the acequia with the lariat in his hand.
He went to the tree and unfastened the lariat from the hole.
You just don't choose, and that's about the size of it"; and gathering up the coils of the lariat he turned abruptly away and led off the reluctant Captain Jinks in the direction of the pueblo in order to saddle him up.
He passed his horse's lariat round the enormous bole of the great Lone Pine and made him fast.
At that instant the lariat zipped from a graceful sweep of Carney's hand to float like a ring of smoke over the head of Jack the Wolf, and he was jerked to earth.
Carney held three loops of the lariat in his right hand, and the balance in his left; now he slipped from the rock, darted to the side of the car and waited.
Throwing a lariat at a man lying groggily flat, with one of the thrower's legs in a bear trap, was a new one on Carney--it was some test.
I camped far from the trail, with lariat fastened to my wrist, never closing my eyes until my faithful animal had laid down for the day.
Their good qualities were few, and consisted of being a sure shot, and expert at lariat and whip-throwing.
A lariat is a fifty foot line with a running noose at one end and made from the hide of various animals.
I coiled up the lariat and placed my right arm over his perfectly formed neck and slowly walked to our little camp.
There was a lariat hanging to the horn of the saddle, and I proceeded to tie myself to the pony's back as well as I could.
He leaped through the loop of Ted's lariat like a circus performer through a hoop.
But Stella's lariat was of Mexican rawhide, and even White Fang's sharp teeth had no effect on it.
He took a turn of the lariat around the saddle pommel, drawing it taut.
Tad sharply, leaping from the saddle and taking up on the lariat as fast as he could.
The lariat had dropped over the other animal's neck and was quickly drawn down.
This done he ran to his fallen companion, who still lay where the lariat had thrown him.
The rowels were dug into the sides of the pony with a firmer pressure than before, and Tad began rapidly to haul in the lariat with one hand.
The lariat began curving in the air, then its great loop opened, shot out and dropped neatly over the head of the pink-eyed pony.
Tad sprang to the top of the bluff, swinging the loop of his lariat above his head as he ran.
