After the meal a youth named Moore mounted a saddled horse that was picketed nearby and rode up a branching gulch, returning with a dry cedar log which he snaked to the wagon at the end of his rope.
The nighthawk came riding up on the horse he had picketed prior to going to sleep before sunup at the first stand.
Two men mounted the horses that had been picketed close at hand throughout the night and stationed themselves on either side of the open end of the rope corral to guide the horse herd into it.
A picketed horse stamped restlessly just outside and a range cow bawled from an adjacent slope.
When the ranger returned he picketedone horse in the heavy grass while Slade pitched Billie's teepee under a spruce.
The scattered mud-huts within the lines afforded excellent cover to the sick and wounded, as well as a degree of protection for the camels, horses, mules, and donkeys picketednear the middle ground of the camp.
The Egyptian cavalry and camelry were picketed at the north of the camp, and the 21st Lancers at the south end, both being within the lines.
So he successfully guarded a road all night, his horse picketed to a fence, and himself in a greatcoat stretched asleep in the middle of the road.
They found troughs and watered the horses, and picketed them along the railings.
We stillpicketed down close to Fairfax Court House.
They made a supper from their bread and bacon, and then picketed their animals securely, and while one of them watched the other slept.
Our young friends picketed their horses, having first cut a quantity of green oats from a field near by, with which they fed the faithful animals.
A very large number of them, of all sorts, had been picketed there, a short distance in the rear of the camps.
Another pin was driven to hold the pony's lariat, but the two animals were not picketed near each other.
He picketed him there, upon a slope where he could stand, a little uncomfortably, and pick grass, which was greener than any on the outside prairie.
They had stationed uniformed sentinels here and there, and they had picketed horses, with saddles and military trappings, in long rows near at hand.
The militants were furious at this reply, and the Bishop's house was picketed by their emissaries, who were, however, unable to see him.
May 14 the houses of Lord Lansdowne and Sir Edward Carson were picketed by suffragists to emphasise the contention that the Ulster leaders should also be treated as in revolt.
Rockefeller, junior, one of the leading owners, had his residence picketed by Socialists.
The Cossacks had halted for breakfast, when the thought came into my head that we might make our escape while the men were all dismounted, and eating some horrid mess or other, their horses being picketed some distance from them.
Dick, as they all dismounted and picketed their horses to the plain.
Raw and unarmed regiments were on the extreme front, which was not picketed or scouted as it should have been in the face of an enemy.
This settlement was intensely loyal, and admirablypicketed by Union women, children, and bushwhackers.
In the last open spot of the timber, screened from view from the prairie by clumps of willows and other bushes, were six horses, picketed for grazing.
At present these animals are picketed on long lines laid on a patch of snow close by, above them, on a patch of black sand and rock, the dogs extend in other long lines.
Torbert, Emory, and Crook each picketed and watched his own front, and there was not a horseman between the infantry and the supposed position of the enemy at or beyond Fisher's Hill.
On the extreme right the Clinton road was picketed and held by a detachment of infantry and rangers and the remaining section of Semmes's battery.
Martha had finished her fun, led Dan away and picketed him, and was sitting by Scylla's side talking about that happy day when health and strength should have come back to the preacher's little daughter, when the men came out again.
Saylo and John had picketed their ponies, Saylo intending to ride in to Amarilla that night, and John having in view a visit to the camp of cow-boys four or five miles away.
There's quite a bunch of horses picketeddown there in the ravine, sir," he said, pointing toward the right.
They're horses, picketed in line like a cavalry troop, and they've got their saddles on.
The old Irishman had camped near us and had picketed his mule out but did not know I had a mule so near like his.
Johnnie saw the Irishman's mule picketed out about half way between our camp and our herd, and he pulled up the picket and started on to the camp with the mule.
Descending the stream some distance, Pike established a picketed stockade, surrounded it by a water ditch and made it quite impregnable to any ordinary attack.
The long level ledges of rock that formed the floor of the bench gave no opportunity for driving a picket pin down into the soil, and indeed the feed was so scattered that a picketed horse would get nothing to eat.
The boys went and did as they were told, and changed the two horses that were picketed to fresh grass, saw that the others were all near at hand, and then returned to the fire.
The horses had been picketed where they could feed and yet would not interfere with each other.
About three o'clock they camped on the river at the edge of a grove of cottonwood trees, and unhitching the horses, Joe and Jack picketed them on the fresh green grass.
Hugh kindled the fire and began to get breakfast, while the boys went out and turned loose the picketed horses, finding all the animals together.
On returning to the wagon, Priest and I picketed our horses, saddled, where we could easily find them in the darkness, and unrolled our bed.
These we either tied to the wagon wheels or picketed near at hand, and then we sought our blankets for a few hours' sleep.
Then the old man felt too sleepy to play any longer, but loitered around some time, and casually inquired of his boy if he had picketed their mare where she would get a good bait of grass.
Numbers of mules and horses were picketed at hand, whilst a large herd of noble oxen were being driven towards the camp--the wo-ha of the teamsters sounding far and near, as they collected the scattered beasts in order to yoke up.
The trappers had formed a little breastwork of their packs, forming a semicircle, the chord of which was made by the animals standing in a line, side by side, closely picketed and hobbled.
He mounted a horse picketed near the camp and rode out to a remuda of seven cow-ponies grazing in a draw.
Recalling the horses he and his companion had left picketed not far away, Jack felt a momentary qualm.
The two trappers had each his riding and his pack horse, and at night generally picketed them all; but one night Big Jim allowed one of his to remain loose to graze.
The horses are then turned out, under a guard, to graze; but before darkness comes on are placed inside the ring, and picketed by a stake driven in the earth, or with two feet so tied together as to prevent easy or free locomotion.
After he had unsaddled and picketed he condescended to explain to her.
The man was plainly very tired with rapid travel, and about the middle of the afternoon the young man unsaddled and picketed the animal near a water-hole.
They left the horses picketed on a grassy slope, and climbed the faint trail that went steeply up the bowlder-strewn mountain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picketed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
