For it had reminded Buck Higgins of lariats and their merits, especially for hanging men.
And, hanging from it, with noosedlariats around their necks, were three limp, ghastly figures.
His own brother, assisted by other Indians, captured him by strategy, bound him securely with their lariats and delivered him at the agency.
There they are left, their lariats affording sufficient length to make them fast to the rocks, while a tapado of the saddle-blankets secures them against binneying.
Before flinging them the rope has been passed through the iron ring with which all lariats are provided, thus furnishing a ready-made running noose.
The rope is a hundred and fifty yards long, señor, the lariats reach about thirty yards.
How long would thelariats be, tied together, with that piece of thin rope you brought to check the raft in dangerous places?
Stephen knotted the lariats to the rope, and coiled them up so that they would run out easily, and they then prepared for the first attempt.
There was a whirring of lariats and no less than three nooses had fallen over the hotel man's head.
At the saddle bows of some of the hung raw-hide lariats that the owners unwound as they sped forward.
Instantly a score of men set off after the fugitive, swinging their lariats as they rode.
That makes me think, I've saved a couple of dandylariats for you.
We threw the wagon tongue back and lashed it, and making fast to the wagon with one end of the tow rope, fastened our lariats to the other.
Then we hastened out of the water and into our saddles, and wrapped the loose end of our ropes to the pommels, having already tied the lariats to the heavy corral rope from the animal's horns.
Honeyman was left-handed and threw a rope splendidly; and as we circled around the horses on opposite sides, on a signal from him we whirled our lariats and made casts simultaneously.
Priest and I rode the river, selecting a route; and on our return, all five of us tied our lariats to the tongue and sides of the wagon.
The ropes were taut and several of them were about her throat; the horses were pulling in as many different directions, yet the strain of all the lariats failed to choke her as we expected.
At the same time he dexterously cuts the lariats of such horses as he observes are not hobbled.
Blaze and Blackie were safe at the ends of their tether ropes--the lariats the boys carried coiled on their saddle horns during the day.
Long lariats were tied to the wagons, and twenty men manning each, they were pulled to and from the mountains.
They were being driven by seven or eight mounted men, wearing sombreros, and dressed in buckskin, with their lariats dangling from their saddles, and they were followed by two or three pack-mules or horses.
By five or six minutes past three all of that herd were racing westward, with boys and men getting out of breath behind it, and all the squaws in the camp were holding hard upon the lariats of the ponies tethered among the lodges.
The two men were stationed at the edge of the circle formed of lariats with their backs toward each other.
Then we would coil our lariats and ride straight into the midst of the band and rope them until the band was scattered.
At the end of the different lariats lay four cattle raiders, their clumsy disguises dragged half off, giving a grotesque appearance to them.
Two lariats will be needed for every horse and mule, as one generally wears out before reaching the end of a long journey.
Sharp jerks of the lariats called the ponies from their feeding and they followed the pulling.
They did but secure their first string of prizes by lariats and pins before they went in for another lot.
It took a number of men to hold them, having lariats on their saddle-horns.
They got the lariats entangled round their legs and Brother Crow also, throwing one of the steers down and he fast with it.
They neglected to take the lariats off the horses and the buffalo horse was soon seen to be drowning.
Come," and we passed wide around the heels of four restive cow ponies that were hitched at the door, with lariats on their saddle-pommels and Winchester rifles in the side-buckets.
Dishes and bowls were made of wood, or of large gourds; spoons and ladles were fashioned from the horns of the buffalo; mats were woven of rushes, ropes of buffalo hair, and lariats of rawhide.
Then he secretly took all the lariats that the party had, and tied them together, and let them down, and found that his rope was long enough to reach the ground.
Often two men would be seen mounted on the same animal, the one behind having the lariats of two led horses wound about his arm.
It appeared that the savages had twisted lariatsinto long cords, fastened rude grapples to the end of them, flung them from the wall below the Casa, and so made their daring escalade.
But we can make a towing cord of lariats and let it out from the shore; perhaps swing it clear across the river in that way--with some paddling, you know.
The pickets were drawn, lariats coiled, and the horses brought up.
The lariats are coiled, blankets adjusted, and at a signal from the chief we mount, and defiling through the wood, emerge on the open prairie, pursuing our journey in Indian file.
With shouts and yells, with lashings from their shortened lariats and with shots from their heavy revolvers the punchers did manage, however, to keep the creatures in a compact mass.
Then it was necessary to try to pull them out by lariats attached to them, and extending to the horns of the saddles.
For when it was evident that the animal could not free himself, a number of the Greasers rode as close as was safe, and tossed their lariats about the animal's neck.
As soon as the words were out of his mouth he was busy with the safety straps, and as he unbuckled himself he noticed their lariats coiled about the hooks.
Swiftly he ran, being careful to make no noise, and as he drew closer the lariats in his hand were being looped into shape.
In fact they would have felt as if they were not fully dressed, so now long lariats were coiled under their seats.
They took up that Bear-trail next day; they found the lariats chewed off.
Lariats won't do, and he knows all about log traps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lariats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
