Spurring their mustangs they dashed forward, letting the lassos fly.
In a second five or sixlassos had sprung through the air.
Two men with lassos ready waited on either side, their mounts aquiver.
It took three men to get the bull into the saddling pen, two with lassos and one with a pole, but the strap was finally adjusted around his chest, and the mount made.
An Indian in overalls swung himself into the saddle simultaneously with the snatching away of lassos and blinders.
Long Lester demanded of the assemblage, as Spitfire danced forth with three lassos trying to hold him for the blinders.
But three lassos and a dozen mounted men finally headed off the bull and got him into a smaller corral.
The first entry, rearing and snorting, with two lassos about his neck, had finally been blind-folded and caparisoned.
But in less time than I can tell it the plainsmen had sent their lassos hurtling through the air, and the horses discovered that they had met their masters.
Only in an arena where horses could be ridden at full gallop, where lassos could be thrown, and pistols and guns fired without frightening the audience half to death, could such a thing be attempted.
Two men remained on either side of the leader, with the lassos about its neck, and one man retained the same restraining influence over each of the others.
With lassos on saddle horses in front of the two teams, all pulling hard, we overcame that obstacle.
The lassos were each thirty feet long, but even with that the men could just barely keep out of her reach.
The three men were nearing the bottom of the second hollow, well spread out, lassos taut, facing one another.
When all four lassos had been stretched, the lioness could not move.
Then, lassos in hands, we began clambering over the broken fragments.
I am sure I thought that they would when I found one of their long lassos round my waist, and myself hauled along till the breath was nearly squeezed out of my body.
As he passed through their ranks, several lassos were thrown at him; but Archie had learned how to avoid these weapons, and by lying flat along his horse's neck, he escaped being pulled from his saddle.
As he dashed into the bushes he heard the lassos whistling through the air behind him, and he even felt the "wind" of one as it flew past his ear.
One of the lassos had snapt and the alligator was floundering back into the water, when Sambo rushed in up to the arm-pits, and caught the end of the rope.
The two wood rangers put forward their right legs, threw their bodies back to get a balance, and whirled their lassos round their heads; at an agreed-on signal, the lassos slipped from their hand and whizzed through the air.
Valentine and Curumilla had thrown theirlassos round a rock that stood on the other side of the canyon, and the running knot had drawn.
The dragging bamboo pole soon brought him to a stop, and after several charges at his captors, two more lassos were placed on him, and he was securely fastened and dragged to a tree, against which his head was tied.
The lassos are nooses attached to the ends of bamboo poles about twelve feet long.
An Indian dismounted, and, with great agility, attached to the trunk of a solid tree the two lassos that retained the savage beast; then he gave the signal that his office was accomplished, and retired.
Two hunters approached, threw their lassos over the animal, and fixed the ends to the ground with stakes; and now our prey was thoroughly subdued, and reduced to immobility, so that we could approach him with impunity.
We threw over him several lassos of strong cords, and when he was well secured, we drew him to land.
Then the vaquero keeps a little ahead of him and leads him back to the rodeo-ground, where another vaquero lassos him by the hind legs and throws him, while the reata is taken off his neck.
A herd of cattle were driven into the valley, and three gentlemen on trained horses, with lassosin their hands, each selected their animal, and started in pursuit.
When they were near enough, some ten or fifteen yards from them, which is about the distance one can lasso with a chance of success, they stopped and threw their lassos over the horns of the animals.
They took their lassos with them, and in less than an hour they returned with two reindeer.
But the aim of the lassos was so deadly, and the hailstorm of bullets so incessant, that time after time they were obliged to retire.
But at this point the enemy, who had been choked and blinded for the moment, evidently recovered himself, for with the rapidity of lightning the two lassos were drawn back again.
When Hal heard of the lassos he cried out that it was no less a person than Dodds.
They bound their horses by lassos to pickets which they drove into the ground, carried their baggage into the fort, and accepted my invitation to enter the house, where our parlour and kitchen were.
We lay in a hollow of the prairie, between two small elevations, and fastened our riding-horses and the leading mare to lassos driven into the ground, while the captured horses grazed on the bottom.
They only moved because they felt the sharp steel in their sides, and we were obliged to lead the mules by lassos and appoint a man to drive them, as they refused to follow.
They went over us like a tornado, and our terrified horses, which had torn themselves loose, dashed over the prairie in front of them, trailing the broken lassos after them.
He bound the mare to a tree, let loose the other horses and wound the lassos round their necks, upon which they all collected round the old mare.
When all was secure, they freed thelassos and again mounted their horses.
He tore at the lassos with his claws, and exerted all his tremendous strength to break the rawhide ropes, which were drawn as tight as a bow-string.
Dick was on one side of him, old Bob on the other; and their lassos were drawn so taut he could not turn either way.
They had contented themselves with removing the bridle to enable them to feed on the fresh and short grass of the bank, and, for fear of accident, they had attached them by lassos to the trunks of trees.
Without losing a moment the partisan seized the lassos from the Pincheyras, tied them firmly together, and after having fixed one of the ends round his girdle, he gave the other to Don Pablo, and prepared to commence his hazardous descent.
This horn is what the cowboys fasten their lassosaround when they catch a wild steer or a pony.
So would I--only they won't let us have lassos any more.
In the cells the long, slender, thread-like lassos lie coiled up ready for use.
The lassos escape from the cells by turning themselves inside out with lightning-like swiftness, and woe to the crab, or small water animal that comes in contact with this lovely flower!
They wear broad-brimmed hats, and carry long ropes called lassos or lariats, with which they catch the cattle.
With lassos and bolas made of twine, they practise on little birds, or on the dogs and fowls of home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lassos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
