Each carried two or four white bales slung on his sides, or two or more long boxes, consisting of planks roped rather than nailed together.
The charvadars relied on their felt coats and raw sheepskins, with the fur inside, roped round their legs.
Sort of continuing the little nap you was taking when he roped you, eh?
There are some people that are bachelors because they are too darned smart to get roped and branded because the moon happens to be real bright.
He seemed, indeed, more savage and threatening than the puma that Jib had roped that forenoon as they rode over to Tintacker.
So she was not afraid to try the nervous little flea-bitten gray that Ike Stedman roped and saddled and bridled for her.
These wildcat mining properties are just the kind that greenhorn Easterners get roped into.
The wall pins were next driven into place and the walls roped down to them.
For pure, unadulterated nerve, you seem to have the rest of us roped and thrown.
Quite a number also have been roped by the men on the round-up who have happened to run across them when gorged from feeding at a carcass.
After this freak was roped to my saddle and we had proceeded a little way, I asked, "Excuse me, friend, but what stock did you descend from?
The quilts and blankets were folded in the wheelbarrow, and with the help of two men Pod and Coonskin lifted me into the one-wheeled carriage, where I was strapped and roped so securely I couldn't budge without upsetting.
The teamster roped Mac to the rear axle of his wagon, cracked his whip, and drove on, dragging the obdurate donkey on his haunches across the bridge, while Cheese crept closely behind in fear and trembling.
Our animals that night were securely roped both to the iron tent-pins and the tent, so that they could not slip away during the night without taking us with them.
The velocity of the vibrations of that hog's roped foot, trying to kick loose, put electricity to shame.
Being roped securely to the boxes, all I could do was to kick at the flying sparrows, and bray as only a frightened donkey can.
Of these heroped one and brought it back to camp, where he saddled it with deft swiftness.
A second cowboy rode up, roped the bull, and deftly hogtied it.
If the body happened to be inconveniently near a house, a mounted cowboy roped one foot and dragged it to a distance.
There was something almost uncanny to them in the way the lad had roped the pickaninny, and they took good care to crowd back farther from the street lest the boy might take it into his head to rope another of them.
Next he searched the clothes of the roped man, removing a knife.
As I expected, he let drop his pistol as he tumbled, and before he could get it again I had ridden up and roped him.
I have not got the knack yet," Hugh said; "and anything over six months I had to have roped by the legs and thrown, but I suppose I shall be able to tackle them in time.
In the first place the others were speedily roped both by the head and hind legs.
One of the men had roped her, and New York John naturally thought that she was safe.
Waal, I was on a young broncho I had only roped two days before, and the critter wur as wild as could be.
The forest monarchs are curtained with tangled creepers and roped together with serpent-like lianas, stag-horn ferns, and green veils of filmy moss fluttering from every bough.
Fresh horses had been roped from the remuda and were carrying them at an even Spanish jog-trot through the night.
Dave roped his mount and rode out to meet Chiquito.
I can't get away from here till we get Number Three ropedand muzzled.
Dave had had the calvesroped down to the feed-racks above the cars.
The extra weight had come in recent years, but underneath it lay roped muscles and heavy bones.
I've run coyotes and panthers down with Panchito and roped them.
This is the first one I have roped alone, however.
Prom the gray's saddle he took a short piece of rope, such as vaqueros use to tie the legs of an animal when they haveroped and thrown it.
I roped him and dragged him for two miles behind the black mare.
It was off the forest and to the southeast, but as any blaze within sight demanded investigation, he put a pot of coffee on the fire and swiftly roped and saddled one of his horses.
Pete was even more astonished to realize that it was the dog he had roped recently.
Finally with their game roped securely they set out on foot for the ranch.
Annersley inspected the horses and finally chose a horse which Young Pete roped with much swagger and unnecessary language, for the horse was gentle, and quite familiar with Young Pete's professional vocabulary.
When the sheep were turned and had resumed their grazing, Montoya, who had caught the roped dog, strode to Pete.
I could have touched her with a fishing rod and saw how easily she could be roped from where I stood.
Copple, as a boy, had worked for him--had ridden wild bronchos and roped wild steers in that open, many and many a day.
These two roped together thundered off with the noose widening.
Before they could get back he roped the lion again and made fast to a tree.
There," he said, "I've roped one of his hind legs.
He roped his own horse and did it neatly the girl observed.
That very afternoon she roped Dynamite, one of the most unmanageable horses on the ranch.
My mother roped him in for a teetotal riot she was inciting this vac.
The house would have seemed uninhabitable save for the announcement of the flat to be let, which was painted on a board roped to one of the columns.
He sprang in the air--threw himself on the ground like a roped brumby--jumped up again and ran all he knew, frantically wringing the hand the trap clung to.
The odds are, if Jackson's so thick with him, that he'll be roped into it too.
It was roped across and a rough board separated it into two sections.
The cart was almost square with posts standing up along the sides to hold the furs which were piled high above the cart and roped down in place.
Morrow roped the first calf and dragged it to the fire.
One animal that had fought viciously against this treatment had been thrown and stretched, his four feet roped to convenient posts, and while he struggled and heaved on the ground Rile Foster calmly fitted and nailed the shoes on him.
The four wagon horses were roped and harnessed while Waddles loaded the bed rolls on the tailgate and lashed them fast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
