It took him about a minute to lasso one, throw him, tie his legs, and put a bar across his neck, so that the animal was entirely helpless.
I saw Brother Gordon lasso a couple of young bullocks this morning, almost as dexterously as I used to see the Spaniards do it in California.
And seizing the lasso he always carried about him, the Aucas lay down on the ground, and began crawling through the tall grass.
The hunters tried to lasso the raft, and draw it to them, while the pirates on the other hand, employed the utmost efforts to keep it in the current.
Curumilla had succeeded in throwing hislasso so as to entangle it in the trees, but Red Cedar cut it twice with his knife.
Slone held the taut lasso with his left hand, and with the right he swung the other rope, catching the noose round Wildfire's nose.
The lasso was still trailing out behind, limp and sagging.
Lucy knew she was safe when she untied the lasso from the strong root where she had fastened it, and led the stallion down the wash to a pool of water.
Rapid, rhythmic beat of hoofs made him leap to his feet, reaching for his lasso with right hand and a gun with his left.
The black followed her, and the stallion, still fast to him by the lasso Lucy had left tied, trooped behind with bowed head.
Then she slipped out of the brush and, untying one lasso from the pommel, she returned to the horse and pulled it from round his legs.
When Slone tried to stir in her the old spirit all the response he got was a wistful shake of head or a laugh that hid the truth or an excuse that the strain on her ankles from Joel Creech's lasso had never mended.
Then Wildfire bolted as his rider whipped the lasso round the horn.
Wildfire tried again, almost lifting the rider, but a stinging cut from the lasso made him come to a stand.
With a wild whoop Slone leaped off Nagger, and, a lasso in each hand, he ran down the long bank.
He still held a lasso which was loosely coiled, and the loop dropped in front of him as he backed away.
Slone felt a ghastly triumph when he began to whirl the noose of the lasso round his head.
By this time men were running all over the Park with loaded pistols and guns in their hands, while others carried pitchforks and ropes to try to lasso the panther for they really wished to capture him alive if they could.
Jones might have headed him, but manifestly he wanted to ride with him, as well as to meet him, so in case the lasso went true, a terrible shock might be averted.
When Jones thrashed the lasso at Kitty we both yelled.
Jones recognized this as his opportunity, and taking his lasso and an extra rope, he crawled into the hole.
In the confusion and dim light of bedtime I contrived to throw the end of my lasso over the horn of a saddle hanging on the wall, with the intention of augmenting the noise I soon expected to create; and I placed my automatic rifle and .
Jones promptly lassoed it, passed his end of the lasso round a side prop of the shaft, and out to the soldiers who had followed him.
Then the old buffalo hunter loosened the lasso which was round her neck, and as soon as she could move her head, he teased her to bite a club.
You see, I wanted to lasso her front paw, pull her off the limb, tie my end of the lasso to the tree, and while she hung I'd go down and rope her hind paws.
Frank was shaking his head, and Jones, standing above the lion, lasso in hand, wore a disconsolate face.
Jones conceived the idea of raising the loop of his lasso on a long pole, but as no pole of sufficient length could be found, he tried from the back of his horse.
The lasso streaked out with arrowy swiftness, circled, and snapped viciously close to Old Tom's head.
He threw out his lasso and, dragging every crook out of it, carefully recoiled it, and hung it loose over the pommel of his saddle.
The remainder of Jones's lassowent to bind number six, and one of his socks went to serve as reminder to the persistent wolves.
He was calm and deliberate, and slid down the pine, walked back to the leaning tree, and while resting a moment, shook his lasso at Kitty.
He leaped into action with a lasso in each hand, one whirling round his head.
My idea is to pull her off the limb, let her hang there, and then lasso her hind legs.
I'll take a couple of the hide-ropes, knot them together, and coil them up lasso fashion.
He was just as handy with a lassoand seldom missed if he wished to catch an animal, but Prof.
With a free use of thelasso preparations to start partake of the activity of a tornado.
A lasso was quickly thrown round his neck, and another round his hind legs, and falling helpless to the ground, a halter was put over his head and made fast with a stout thong of hide to a firm post.
He then came round and made fast his lasso to the horses' heads, remounted, and made start with the cart in tow in the direction of the Cerro.
Then the lasso was brought into play, and after it had been lassoed and bullied about it generally thought better of it and did what was required.
Ramon suggested that we should lasso him and kill him, and so get rid of the nuisance once and for all.
In front rode a native on horseback, with his lasso made fast to the leading horses, so that he was able to guide the course of the diligence.
Two large fires were lit, and the brands heated, and then two of our native neighbours rode in among the cattle to lasso and bring out the calves.
I told him if he found anything wrong to make his lasso fast to the horses, and so bring them cart and all, up to the Cerro.
Hastily bridling his horse, and throwing the saddle on his back, the csikos held the lasso in readiness, and galloped towards the ownerless steed.
Another Llanero would then dexterously cast his lasso round the animal's fore-feet, and by a jerk bring it round its legs.
One of the more experienced riders, watching his opportunity, then leaped into the saddle, and signed to one of his companions to cast off the lasso from its legs.
Jose Gonzalez, dressed in Mexican holiday attire of straw sombrero, braided jacket, and close-fitting trousers, showed his skill as an expert lasso thrower.
Recalling his manhood and her weakness, he stopped, and bracing his foot against a stone, with a graceful flourish of his lasso around his head, threw it in the air.
I have only to take the first clothes-line that I find, and with that knowledge and skill with the lasso which I learned in the wilds of America, I could stop the charge of the most furious ruminant.
Then he quietly disentangled the lasso from his legs.
The lasso catch him around the neck; he is obliged to remain.
One time a padre who have the zeal excessif for the saving of soul, when he find the heathen, who is a young girl, have escape the soldiers, he of himself have seize the lasso and flung it!
Let us to the hotel and the barkeep, who shall give up the smash of brandy and the julep of mints before the lasso of Friar Pedro shall prevent us the swallow!
My uncle have seen him, too, but he make the sign of the cross, and the lasso have fall to the side, and my uncle have much gratification.
More than a dozen of these were owned by men on the beach, and were allowed to run loose among the hills, with a long lasso attached to them, to pick up feed wherever they could find it.
The lasso was not ours, the horse was not ours, what does it matter what they say?
Gentlemen," he said, "whenever you feel disposed to hunt, come to me and we will lasso and roast a heifer in the hide.
We pulled up as soon as we had reached a safe distance, Claro drily remarking that the lasso had been borrowed, and that the horse belonged to the estancia, so that we had lost nothing.
Orlando di Lasso was known, moreover, for the sweetness, beauty, as well as the great number and variety of his works.
Palestrina's contemporaries, such as Lasso and some of his predecessors, wrote in the same style.
Orlando de Lasso did his work at this time, and Stefano Vanneo of Recanati published his treatise on counterpoint in 1531.
Also on the 26th, the 4th Division had seized Mount Maga in the center of the island and had forced Colonel Ogata and his staff to abandon their command post on Mount Lasso which fell to the Marines without a struggle.
The island was just one big cane field, and Mount Lasso was directly ahead of our beaches.
A battery of 155mm “Long Tom” guns on Saipan fired smokeshells at the Japanese command post on Mount Lassoand also laid smoke in the woods and on the bluffs just beyond the beaches to obstruct Japanese observation.
Ogata established his command post in a cave on Mount Lasso in the center of the northern region, roughly equidistant--a little over two miles--from beaches on either side of the island.
We will tie this end of thelasso to the tree," said Jim, "so you will feel perfectly safe, Jo.
All was ready now, and the two above held the loop of the lasso that had been tied at the cinch, with both hands, and they pulled together.
Tie the ends of the lasso to the iron rings at the ends of the front cinch.
I said, "No, I'm going to use the rope to lasso mosquitoes as long as you haven't got any mosquito dope.
So I took the rope and made a lasso knot in it and let myself down the trunk as far as I dared.
The dogs were set on him, and off he went at full run, in the direction of another horseman, who threw his lasso to entangle his legs and precipitate him to the ground.
Hugh picked out a horse that struck him as being a good one, and threw his lasso round its neck.
More likely you would not, for like enough you would run agin a dozen of them going out, and would get a lasso dropped over your shoulders afore you saw or heard them.
