But the old ranchero leisurely walked down the pathway to the gate, and amid the downpour shouted to us: "Turn those horses loose; this ranch is going to take a month's holiday.
By impressing on the ranchero the importance of not delaying this trail man, we got him to inject a little action into his corporal.
Of course, the compliments of our employer to the ranchero of Santa Maria went with the remuda and wagon.
It was these teasings of her brother that gave me my first inkling that the old ranchero was a wily matchmaker, though he religiously denied every such accusation.
It was a delicate errand, for no ranchero liked to see people leave his lands, and it was only where I found men unemployed that I applied for and secured them.
Allowing the beeves to scatter, the old ranchero met and rode zigzagging through them until he came face to face with the pinto ladino.
The old ranchero and the priest were gone nearly an hour, and on their return looked at another site in the rear of the Mexican quarters.
During the residence of the old ranchero at Las Palomas, the Nueces valley had suffered several severe drouths as disastrous in their effects as a pestilence.
The old ranchero and his sister chaperoned the young lady, while I, betrothed to another, became her most obedient slave.
Halting the ambulance, the old ranchero pointed out to his guest the meanderings of that creek from its confluence with the parent stream until it became lost in the hills to the southward.
We made an early start, the old ranchero riding with us as far as the river.
Deweese at once resumed his position on the ranch, and the next morning the ranchero held a short council with him, authorizing him to spare no expense to save the cattle.
Knowing the lifetime of self-sacrifice in securing the land of Las Palomas, I sympathized with the oldranchero in his despondency.
Instead of continuing the argument, the wily ranchero changed the subject.
The ranchero was tall, perhaps an inch or so taller than Drew, and his body had the leanness of the men who worked the range country, possessing, too, a lithe youthfulness of carriage.
But there is no other ranchero who would run horses on the Range and Don Cazar’s manadas are not driven in here—does he want the wild ones to run off his mares?
A friendly hand laid upon his shoulder caused him to look up; Don Juan the ranchero was bending over him.
The girl sat down by the loom and continued her work, while the youngranchero was allowed to kneel upon the petate beside her, and converse at will.
The ranchero class corresponds pretty nearly to that known as "small farmers," though in Mexico they are more often graziers than agriculturists.
The young ranchero had other unpleasant thoughts in connexion with this affair.
The cibolero still rode at their head, and Don Juan the ranchero was by his side.
This, shining down upon him, showed a young man of fine proportions, dressed in ranchero costume, and mounted upon a noble steed, whose sleek black coat glittered under the silvery light.
It was the same ravine in which the cattle of the young ranchero Don Juan had been slaughtered!
Up to this time the simple ranchero had no thought but that they were on the trail of Indians.
The ranchero went to open the door, which the newcomer threatened to break in.
A door carefully closed led to an inner room, in which the ranchero slept.
Red Cedar consented with a toss of his head, and the ranchero went with an ill grace toward the door, which was being struck as if about to be beaten in.
In the meanwhile the monk and the ranchero had treacherously approached the young man, watching for the propitious moment to fall on him.
That is true; we must play for something," the ranchero said, scratching his head.
The worthy ranchero was the only one chance had favoured in this meeting by letting him escape safe and sound.
A reflection which proved that the worthy ranchero was well acquainted with his man.
Kidd found the ranchero standing in his doorway, with straddled legs, attentively surveying the approaches to his house.
The maiden, still laughing, embraced the ranchero and his wife, lightly bounded into the saddle, and bending down gracefully offered her hand to Mariano.
They had constant tidings of them all along the route, as El Capitan was too well known to many a poor ranchero whom he had plundered of the dollars produced by the sale of his hides, while on his journey home from the sea-coast.
The ranchero mounted his horse and rode with us about three or four miles, to place us on the right trail, when, after inviting us very earnestly to call and see him again, and bidding us an affectionate adios, he galloped away.
Consul Signs of rain The seasons in California More warlike rumours from the south Mission of San Rafael An Irish ranchero Sausolito Return to San Francisco Meet Lippincott Discomfort of Californian houses.
Down to the shore came a ranchero attended by servants and ox carts.
Before the oldranchero can struggle to his feet, his hands are twisted behind his back.
Hard by the chapel, the old ranchero rests surrounded by the sighing forest.
Finally we did unearth an old ranchero who was said to have declared that, when a lad out hunting in the forest, he and his brother had come across a temple on a pyramid approached by steps, and decorated with blue and red wall paintings.
This is the genuine ranchero costume, and it did me good service.
Is not some poor Indian girl who follows her wild ranchero husband through the dark valleys of Guiana, not only a happier, but a better wife than your proud peeress?
Afterwards poor Ribiera had many adventures, got separated from his guide, lost his mount, struggled down to the Campo on foot, and if he had not thrown himself on the mercy of a ranchero would have perished a long way from Sulaco.
Well, there would be some poetical retribution in that man arising to crush the evils which had driven an honest ranchero into a life of crime.
They had both bent in the lamplight of the Gould drawing-room over the document containing the fierce and yet humble appeal of the man against the blind and stupid barbarity turning an honest ranchero into a bandit.
He had arrived at the ranchero a few days before and not finding Jose there, the patriot being at the front, had just hung around after the easy fashion of the country to wait for him.
While all this transpired on the ranchero El Merced, the Aztec with our heroes on board surprised everybody in Greytown, and no one more than her captain, by arriving there ahead of time.
The ranchero who does not get his own calves now, or who loses his cattle, has only himself, and a carelessness or ignorance that absolutely offers a premium for theft, to thank for it.
They may do this when cattle are "booming," but the fluctuations in the value of stock are enormous, and periods of depression recur at intervals, when even the economic ranchero finds difficulty in making both ends meet.
None of the risks and dangers which face the ranchero in other countries have to be encountered here.
His attempts to release his hands, however, which he commenced the instant the Ranchero left the room, were more successful.
He had told the Ranchero that a dozen such men as he could not overcome his uncle; but the scene before him belied his words.
At the same moment, a lasso, thrown by the Ranchero who had taken charge of Archie, settled down over his shoulders, and was drawn tight.
The Ranchero kept on as if he were not aware that he had been spoken to; and his conduct went a long way in confirming the new suspicions that had suddenly sprung up in Frank's mind.
But this was one secret that the Ranchero kept to himself.
He jumped over rocks and logs, and cleared ravines that at almost any other time would have effectually checked his progress, and when he reached the thick woods at the base of the mountains, the Ranchero was out of sight and hearing.
Frank shuddered as theRanchero said this, and, for the first time, he felt his firmness giving away.
If the Ranchero supposed that Frank would allow himself to be captured a second time, he was sadly mistaken.
Archie was going on to explain to the Ranchero the principles on which his imaginary flying-machine operated, when the call to supper interrupted him.
Ranchero of distinguished appearance an accomplished monte-dealer and horse-jockey.
Wait a minute," said Patsy, and ran up to her room, leaving Beth to confront the ranchero and to study him with her dark, clear eyes.
The aged ranchero listened intently, nodding his white head now and then to show his interest.
The old ranchero stood as if turned to stone, but he bit his cigarette in two and it fell unnoticed upon the ground.
The ranchero arose and made his master and mistress one of his best bows.
A passing ranchero reined in and rode within three feet of him, but he did not open an eye or even twitch an ear to scare away a fly.
This ranchero sent after officers and had the country scoured for the robbers.
But it was generally reported and believed that he had been captured by the lawless band of Romano Falcon, a ranchero bandit, and, after being robbed of every thing valuable, was shot with a pistol by the robber captain.
The Mexican rancherois somewhat superior to the gaucho of the Pampas.
Bloodson's reputation had been so long established on the prairies that the ranchero must feel affected in his presence.
Bloodson was seated in front of a fire, smoking an Indian pipe, with White Gazelle by his side; and for a moment the ranchero almost repented the step he had taken.
The ranchero withdrew, and an hour later was sleeping as every honest man should do, who feels conscious of having performed his duty.
The ranchero looked the girl in the face to see if she were speaking seriously; but White Gazelle's face was cold and stern; he tossed his head.
The ranchero quivered, and a smile of joy lit up his bronzed countenance as he leaped on his horse.
Bloodson was delighted at seeing his niece again; both had a long conversation, at the end of which the Avenger, as he called himself, ordered the ranchero to approach.
That interests you now, Excellency," the ranchero said, with a crafty look.
The ranchero shrugged his shoulders significantly; White Gazelle gave him one of those profound glances which read the heart.
After this confession, the ranchero bowed his head, as if he felt inwardly convinced that he had committed a great fault.
The ranchero did not require a repetition of this injunction.
The latter knew why the Ranchero had come in there.
We left the boys struggling with the Ranchero who had come in to satisfy himself that Frank had not yet found means to effect his escape.
He had imagined that his escape from the Ranchero had placed him beyond the reach of danger for the present, but now he found that he was running straight into it.
A yell of defiance rang out on the air, and then the Ranchero wheeled his horse and galloped off, dragging his victim after him.
The Ranchero was very angry at Beppo for his failure to carry out his part of the contract, and had made up his mind to punish him for it at some future time.
If the Ranchero had been permitted to return to his friends, he would, of course, have informed them that Frank had been liberated by somebody, and that would have told the Don just where to search for Archie.
For a moment Archie stood, almost without breathing, looking up at the trap-door through which the Ranchero had disappeared.
Shortly afterward a villainous looking Ranchero came in sight, and holding his lantern at arm's length before him, stooped down and glanced all around the stable, as if he were looking for some one.
He looked like a young Hercules as he stood there, drawn up to his full height, his arms extended above his head, his hands clenched, and his fingers moving nervously, as though they were aching to take the Ranchero by the throat.
While the Ranchero was looking at Frank, the latter was narrowly watching the Ranchero.
Then he tried to slip out of his jacket; but the Ranchero detected the move, and shifted his grasp from Archie's collar to his hair.
The Ranchero did not attempt to lift Frank upon his horse, but held fast to his collar, and dragged him over the ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranchero" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: breaker; breeder; cattleman; equerry; groom; hostler; rancher; stableman; tamer; trainer
