The main difficulty in using either lazo or bolas is to ride so well as to be able at full speed, and while suddenly turning about, to whirl them so steadily round the head, as to take aim: on foot any person would soon learn the art.
In consequence many men have been killed; for if the lazoonce takes a twist round a man's body, it will instantly, from the power of the two opposed animals, almost cut him in twain.
The strength of the horse as compared to that of the bullock is quite astonishing: a man on horseback having thrown his lazo round the horns of a beast, can drag it anywhere he chooses.
So many works have been written about these countries, that it is almost superfluous to describe either the lazo or the bolas.
After the lazo has once been drawn tightly round the horns of a furious animal, it does not at first appear an easy thing to disengage it again without killing the beast: nor, I apprehend, would it be so if the man was by himself.
The lazoconsists of a very strong, but thin, well-plaited rope, made of raw hide.
The Gaucho picks out a full-grown colt; and as the beast rushes round the circus he throws his lazo so as to catch both the front legs.
One lazo was thrown over his horns as he rushed at the horse, and another round his hind legs: in a minute the monster was stretched powerless on the ground.
The Guaso is perhaps more expert with the lazo than the Gaucho; but, from the nature of the country, he does not know the use of the bolas.
The lazo fastened to the bit-ring was next uncoiled.
As soon as he has detached himself from the crowd, he spins the lazo round his head, and the noose shooting out is seen to settle over the horns of the bull.
One was throwing the lazo upon the foot of a person running at full speed, noosing him around the ankle, and of course tripping him up.
There was the lazo reaching from the neck of the horse, and, no doubt, wound around the arm of the sleeper!
Just at this moment a man is seen advancing, lazoin hand, in front of the carretas.
Fortunately the lazo was not long enough to enable him to reach the spectators on either side; and again he tumbled back upon his haunches.
Without losing a moment the man runs to a small tree that stands near the centre of the semicircle, and hastily coils the other end of the lazo around its trunk.
Before he was well aware that they had any intention to molest him, a lazo was thrown over his shoulders; and he was dragged to the ground-- where his arms were instantly pinioned.
Perhaps the simplest way of taking the pumas is to throw a lazo over them, as directly they feel the noose they lie down as if dead, and are easily despatched.
As my lazo was used to capture the bull, I came in for a share of the meat, which was divided amongst the people in our toldo; but it proved very tough, and rather nasty.
The horse belonged to El Ingles, and had been lent to Mena to go down from the encampment to the Guardia; the lazo belonged to me.
In addition to the bolas, a lazo is used when hunting cattle or horses, and sometimes for the pumas, although the ordinary method is to kill them by first stunning them with a blow on the head.
Orkeke seconded the proposal, and accordingly, having stripped off mantle and boots, I proceeded to take the lazo and reins and mount.
Thus armed with credentials, and equipped with a guanaco skin mantle, lazo and bolas, I availed myself of the offer of a passage to the Straits made by an old friend who was bound to the westward coast.
In his native province of Arauco he had been for many years employed in the frontier wars with the Indians, and could handle the lazo or the lance with wonderful dexterity.
In the twinkling of an eye, one of the troopers wound his lazo eight or ten times around the arms and legs of the prostrate guerillero, and firmly bound them together.
As there was nothing more upon the person of the prisoner to tempt the cupidity of the brigands, the lazo was unloosened from around his arms, and he was ordered to accompany his captors to the hacienda.
Trembling in every limb, the horse remained quiet, while Fabian brought Pepe's saddle, which he placed on his back, and then arranged the lazo so as to form at once a bridle and a snaffle.
All at once my horse came galloping toward me with the lazo hanging round his neck, which he had broken at the risk of hanging himself.
As he approached, the troop bounded off in affright--just as wild horses would have done; but the active horseman was too quick for them, for already the running noose of his lazo was around the neck of one of them.
As he said this, Pepe took up a lazo that lay near, and turning his face in the direction in which he was most likely to find a drove of horses, he walked off into the woods.
As soon as he walks, his infantine amusements are those which prepare him for the occupations of his future life; with a lazo made of twine he tries to catch little birds, or the dogs, as they walk in and out of the hut.
I rode cautiously up the slope, keeping as well as I could under cover of the cactus plants, in hopes that I might get near enough to fling my lazo without fraying the animal I wished to capture.
I saw them mark out a line upon the grass, by stretching a lazo between two upright pegs.
A lazo was looped around my ankle, and carried out.
Not a rein snaps-- not a lazo breaks--not a loop slides from its hold!
This gave me the opportunity I desired; and, making an effort, I doubled my body over on itself--until I was able to reach the lazo beyond my foot.
He to whose croup I was attached was last in the line; and, consequently, I was trailed along without coming in contact with the others--the long lazo separating me from his horse by a distance of more than a dozen yards.
The Gaucho picks out a full-grown colt; and as the beast rushes round the circus, he throws his lazo so as to catch both the front legs.
The second vaquero now came up, and, as the bull rushed past, launched his lazo after, and snared him around one of the legs, drawing the noose upon his ankle.
I saw that he held in his hand the noose of the lazo which he had taken from my ankles, and I explained the mystery of how it had "kum cut".
The second vaquero now flung hislazo with more success.
The other guerillero, as he fell, had noosed one of his legs in the lazo that hung from the horn of his saddle, and was now dragged over the prairie after his wild and snorting mustang.
Bob proceeded to unwind the noose end of a lazo that, with some six feet of a raw hide thong, was still tightly fastened around my neck.
The lady of the lazo was either his fiancee, or his mistress!
On horseflesh, I suppose: and thelazo will supply that.
Half a dozen springs of the blood bay, guided in a diagonal direction, brought his rider within casting distance; and like a flash of lightning, the loop of the lazo was seen descending over the long ears.
But before any of them could be discharged, a man standing near threw his lazo around her neck, and choked her into silence.
The foremost of her pursuers has lifted the lazo from his saddle horn: he is winding it over his head!
Perceiving that there was no rejoinder, she interrupted her speech, still keeping the lazo at a stretch, with her eyes fixed upon the fallen man.
There was an interval of several days--during which the lady of the lazo was not seen again.
No longer holding it: for at the command to drop it, yielding to a quick perception of danger, both had let go; and the lazo lay loose along the sward.
For some minutes after the lady of the lazo and her attendant had passed out of sight, Louise Poindexter pursued the train of reflection--started by the somewhat singular episode of which she had been spectator.
I ask you to step up to her, throw this lazo over her neck, and lead her to the stable?
From what Maurice had said--from what she had herself seen--the lady of the lazo was just such a woman as should win the affections of such a man.
Only one or two tribes use the spear; and both the "bolas" and lazo are quite unknown, as such weapons would not be available among the trees of the forest.
The lazo had dropped from my fingers, and the bridle-reins trailed untouched over the withers of my horse.
Lige, however, found a compassionate bystander; who, having flung his lazo around the neck of the mustang brought the spectacle to a termination.
Still slowly, and with caution, we allowed the lazo to pass, taking care that it should glide gradually, so as not to jerk, and cause the body of our comrade to oscillate with too much violence against the rocks.
They knew that our rifles once empty, the lazo could be used beyond pistol-range; and by such men, with far surer aim than either carbine or escopette!
I am not angry with you for my pet, but you have carried off my lazo as well.
The shake of a lazo rendered him docile as a lamb.
My lazo was first over the head of the horse--was first tightened around his throat--first brought him to a stand.
The latter was a dashing, cheerful fellow, dressed in half-Mexican costume, who could ride a wild horse and throw thelazo with any vaquero in the crowd.
The latter, cowed at the sudden onset, turned and ran; but his swift pursuer soon came within lazo distance.
I had staked him at the distance of about four hundred yards from the barranca, and upon a lazo of about twenty in length.
I wound the lazo around my head, and hurled it towards him; I saw the noose settling over his shoulders, and falling down to his hips.
The horse sprang round, however, and galloped upon a circle of which thelazo was the radius.
She pointed to a lazo of white horsehair, beautifully plaited, that was coiled upon the saddle of the mustang.
Speed and the lazomust now decide the result; and, with this conviction, I gave Moro the spur, and bounded into the open plain.
Pretty creatures some of them were; and upon any other occasion, I should have been tempted to fling a lazo over one of them, which I might easily have done.
Presently the old mozo walked into the shed, with his lazo over his arm, and carelessly flung the noose across.
But the first rider had wheeled round, thrown his lazo upon the ground, and just as the bull stepped within the noose, whipped it up round his hind leg, and galloped off in a contrary direction.
His lazo hung in front of his high-peaked saddle, and his well-worn serape was rolled up behind him like a trooper's cloak.
In the mean time Don Juan had dropped the noose of my lazo just before the bull's nose, and presently that animal incautiously put his foot into it, when Don Juan whipped it up round his leg and went off at full gallop.
At last Don Juan cut off the retreat of an old bull, and galloping after him like mad, flung the running loop of the lazo over his horns, at the same time winding the other end round the pummel of his saddle.
Just as the first lazo tightened round his neck, the second jerked him by the leg, and the beast rolled helplessly over in the sand.
Round this the end of the lazo is wound, after the noose has been thrown.
Though an Englishman, and only arrived in the country a few years before, Don Juan was as clever with the lazo as most Mexicans, and could colear a bull in great style.
The decoration of the lower part is more minute, and in the scheme of lazo de a diez--"lazo-work of ten.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lazo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
