Swiftly, with regard only for life and limb, Madeline, Helen, and Christine were lowered by lassoes and half carried down to the level.
They were swift, graceful, daring; they never failed to catch a running steer, and the lassoes always went true.
This was strenuous toil, requiring the need of lassoes to haul up the effects.
Before tightening the lassoes the men threw a recado, or soft leather saddle on him, the Joven tugging at the string-girths until the unfortunate grass-fed animal looked like a wasp.
The lassoes were tautened, and the youngster thrown over on his side.
All their ropes and cords--lassoes and all--had been swept away in the wreck.
The horse and mule were picketed on lassoes on the plain.
They all rode shod horses, and had lassoes of ox hide attached to the horns of their saddles.
The other natives dismounted, and put two lassoes round his horns, slipping the first into the same position, and vaulted into their saddles before he was on his legs.
We advanced carefully, the two men withlassoes leading, hiding ourselves among rocks and bushes, and keeping to leeward of the herd.
Suddenly the men with the lassoes threw them round the neck of a cow, the nearest animal to us.
Some of the men on foot, who had been hidden in the neighbourhood, rushed forward, and threw their lassoes over his legs.
Keeping their lassoes at full stretch, away they went before him; and if he stopped a moment to try to get rid of the nooses, they gave him a jerk which made him move on again.
The sudden jerk brought him to the ground, and the other ends of the lassoes being fastened to the saddles, the horses stood perfectly still, dragging away with all their might in opposite directions.
At first there were but three Indians visible; but one by one about twenty appeared, some armed with lances, and others brandishing their lassoes of plaited leather--all uttering those cries by which they express their joy or anger.
Yes," said Pepe; "seek for balls and powder among the lances and lassoes of your warriors.
By this time all that part of the cable which had been made of lassoes had passed over; the remainder consisted of pieces of worn and knotted and frayed rope, at which the engineers began to gaze fearfully.
Its anguish smote the side of the great mountain Haleakala, where Maui had been throwing his lassoes around the sun and compelling him to go more slowly.
Then Maui threw his lassoes one after the other over the sun's legs (the rays of light), holding him fast and breaking off some of them.
Then from the brow behind the birds the three hunters suddenly rose up, and whirling the balls of their lassoes round their heads launched them among the ostriches.
Scarcely had her head been pulled round, when the Indians, again galloping on, dashed into the water and endeavoured to throw their lassoes over their heads.
On came the Indians with terrific yells, flourishing their lassoes high above their heads.
Then he loosed the lassoes except the one around Silvermane's neck, which he whipped under his foreleg to draw him down.
Mescal drew out of the opening, and Dave and Billy pulled away, one on each side, their lassoes swinging loosely.
He stumbled over a pile of lassoes which had not been there when he left.
Illustration: Most of the Amsterdam Boy Scouts carry lassoes with which they are very handy.
He got a hand on the horse, pulled him round, and, mounting in a flash, wound both lassoes round the pommel of the saddle.
Slone uncoiled the lassoes from the pommel and slacked them a little.
Slone finally dug himself out of the sand, pulled the lassoes out, and ran the length of them toward Nagger.
And bothlassoes were held taut by the black horse.
But in the taut lassoes he sensed the direction of his captors.
Two taut lassoes stretched from the pommel of his saddle down a little into a depression full of brush and cactus and rocks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lassoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
