Dolphus was holding Chu Chu by thereata a few paces from the cabin.
She had often ridden him before, and when she had detached the fifty-foot reata from his head-stall, he permitted her the further recognized familiarity of twining her fingers in his bluish mane and climbing on his back.
Without the least embarrassment or even self-consciousness of her appearance, she tossed the end of the reata to me with the curtest explanation as she passed by.
We will say, parenthetically, that the reata is considered in Mexico so dangerous a weapon, that it requires special permission to carry one at the saddle-bow, in the streets of Mexico.
The horseman, without checking his speed, cut the reata that was strangling his companion, and, turning back, dragged the robber after him.
I decided to evacuate the Reata position, and after the battlefield was cleared I returned with the line that was nearest to the enemy to the water south-west of Reata Mountain.
In this situation it was regrettable that I had ordered the troops forming our left wing, who had been posted between Kitovo and Himo, to withdraw to the Kahe-Reata road.
On the heights the fire had gradually died down, and his patrols had found no more trace of the enemy onReata Mountain.
With the detachments that were moving from the vicinity of Himo through the dense bush to the Kahe-Reata road we had no communication, and could expect to have none for several hours more.
Major Kraut reported from Reata that strong hostile forces were moving up towards his positions from the direction of Taveta.
The buildings are situated half-way between Kahe and Reata, on a slight elevation affording a distant view over the forest, which is particularly dense along the Kahe-Reata road.
In the course of the day the other detachments reached the Kahe-Reata road at different points further to the rear and encamped.
When I arrived at Reata Mountain at six in the morning the great quantity of booty was being collected.
Just then Lieutenant Sternheim, commanding the guns with Kraut’s Detachment, telephoned that the enemy had attacked once more in the night and had penetrated into the Reata position in great force.
After our withdrawal the enemy occupied Reata Mountain and for a while fired into the blue with light guns and rifles.
The vaquero winds the reata very tightly round the pommel of his saddle to hold the steer, and he is likely to have his finger caught in the hair- rope and cut off.
I can't imagine how the vaqueros can fling the reata while they are riding at full speed.
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.
Most of them also carried a strong rifle and a reata at their girdle, and, marching in good order, they advanced at a trot towards the city, seeming to come from the opposite direction to that which the hunter was following.
Marksman seized the reata which hung from a ring fixed to the saddle, unfastened it, rolled it round his body, and then, giving the mustang a light tap on the croup, watched it depart with a sigh of regret.
The Canadian took the reata hanging at the saddlebow, and swinging it round his head, awaited the gleam of the next flash.
Ride straight home, and talk to no one, or you will get a reata instead of frijolles.
If it were only an eye," grumbled Don Antonio, "but the devil seems to have a hundred hands, and his reata touches only the first stock on the Arteaga ranches.
The water was rough with you, and the reata rougher.
The man with the reata had caught her first, lest she be dragged downward into the whirlpool, but it was another man who dashed through the whirl of waters and bore her to the shore, where half a dozen men waited.
Doña Jacoba, without the quiver of a muscle, walked into her husband's room and returned with the reata and handed it to her.
On either side rode a vaquero, with his reata fastened to the axle-tree.
Interfere no farther between your sister and your parents, unless you prefer that reata to gold.
With the other she caught her daughter's long unbound hair, twisted it about her arm like a rope, then brought the reata down on the unprotected shoulders with all her great strength Doña Concepción fled from the room.
She caught the greenhidereata from the nail and went up the stair.
She took a greenhide reata from the table and brought it down upon his back with long sweeps of her powerful arm, but not another word came from her rigid lips.
He drew a few steps nearer, undid the reata fastened round his loins, and held it in his right hand.
Then he raised his eyes, measured the distance and turning the reata forcibly round his head, hurled it into Dona Anita's balcony.
The reata in those days was nearly always made of plaited raw hide, and often made by the boys themselves, though a good reata required a long time to complete and peculiar skill in the making of it.
In South America a ring fixed to the surcingle is used; while in Guatemala and Costa Rica the reata is tied to the end of the horse's tail!
They sent one of their number to get a reata for that purpose.
When the man who had been sent for the reata returned, the rustlers set out after the prisoner and found they were five minutes too late.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reata" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
