I didn't think we'd lose so much time roping them knobs an' getting up.
Roping the Mexican's horse he continued on his way to the H2, leaving Juan where he had fallen.
But it won't be no cinchroping th' other," Skinny replied.
Gay can't put over the stuff I want; and I'd like to have you double for her in some riding and roping scenes.
They hadn't caught her roping him, anyway, and she was glad of that.
You remember the roping and shooting science I taught you before you went off to school?
If you can make that dash down the bluff, and do the roping I want, why--Lord!
She would forget all about her story, and the riding and shooting and roping she had done that day to appease the clamorous, professional appetite of Robert Grant Burns, and would sit and stare, and think and think.
And they were beauties; with tops of soft leather with fancy stitching, inlaid with white enameled leather, and high heels, that a fellow could dig into the ground when he was roping a horse.
The Mexicans had by this time succeeded in roping some of the scattered animals, and were streaming over the brow of the hill, shouting wildly.
As he felt his dominion slipping away, as he saw the big farmers come in down below him and recognized the rule of the Federal government above him, he grew reckless in his roping and branding.
Her hostler was transformed into something new and wholly admirable, and she gladly took the trouble to watch for his return, as she could not witness the roping and the skilful subduing of the outlaws.
But roping is hardly ever used nowadays, one reason of the "passing" of the old-time cowboy.
Thus, in roping a broken horse on the open or in a corral, if your rope simply lies over his neck, and yet not be round it, he will probably stop running and resign himself to capture.
We used to have great annual roping competitions in New Mexico and Texas, when handsome prizes were given to the men who would rope and tie down a big steer in quickest time.
O, for honour of our land, Let us not hang like roping icicles Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields- Poor we call them in their native lords!
For himself, the least that Bear Creek would consent to was the roping up of the visitors the moment they appeared.
How the Old Man Subdued the Indians with an Electric Battery and Phosphorus--He Tries His Hand at Roping a Steer--The Disastrous Result.
Connie had entered her name in a free-for-all race as well as a roping contest.
The Rodeo starts on Tuesday, the roping and bucking finals come on Thursday.
Without success other riders of the Kiowa had tried to corral the outlaw or get within roping throw of her shapely head.
The Mexican did a fancy ropingstunt in front of the grandstand and finished his exhibition directly before the Clagstone "Six" in which Carolyn June, Ophelia, Old Heck and Skinny were sitting.
Even the roping and riding contests were relegated to the background.
Pablo and his dusky relatives, now considerably augmented (albeit Don Mike had issued no invitation to partake of his hospitality), trained colts as roping horses or played Mexican monte in the shade of the help's quarters.
On his seventieth birthday, at a rodeo, he won first prize forroping and hog-tying a steer.
The pinto, a trained roping horse, stood, blown and panting, his feet braced, keeping the rope taut while Farrel dismounted and casually strolled back to the tree.
The black mare, a trained roping horse, stood patiently, her feet braced a little, still keeping a strain on the riata.
I couldn't have stayed there if I would without being spotted, for the moment I got myself a little nearer to him he spied me, and began a pantomime of roping me in hand over fist with an imaginary cable.
I was watching them while they were roping that old countryman.
In the end they got Little Bay--as Pan had already named her--into the roping corral, along with two other horses that ran in with her.
As this one was intended for chasing and roping horses, as well as simply holding them, the fence was made an almost impenetrable mass of thick foliaged cedars reinforced, where necessary, with stuffings of scrub-oak brush.
That'll be roping and hobbling the horses we want to keep.
But on this particular day we were roping and riding and, in general, scaring the horses, and some of the time the horses were scaring us.
And he taught us how to make a loop for roping calves.
For instance, we boys were roping and riding horses one Sunday in our horse lot.
The horse doesn't live that could put a man within roping distance of any one in that bunch on a straightaway run, and the black can run circles around the whole outfit.
From the wide ranges, the steers that were to participate in the roping and bull-dogging contests were gathered and driven in.
Honorable Patches showed the effect of his strenuous and bungling efforts to learn the rudiments of the apparently simple trick of roping a calf.
Both the steer-roping and bulldogging was the greatest ever seen here.
The boys spent happy hours on the ranch, entering into friendly contests in everything from roping a steer to saddling a frisky horse.
The boys enjoyed the scenes thrown on the screene, and were particularly taken with a depiction of a cowboy roping a steer.
You should hear them brag of their steer-roping yet in the Ranchmen's Club.
By some mental freak he found himself picturing a man with a gown roping a steer, and it was only by a sudden tightening of his jaws that he prevented an explosion of amusement.
For it was not a good job at all--that particular roping Frances was afterward ashamed of.
Roping the lion, or shooting it with the pistol, was a general sport.
A picture of a famous round-up was shown, and then a real herd of cattle was driven into the enclosure (they wore the Bar-T brand) and several cowboys displayed their skill in roping and tying.
Cowboys of the ranch and others from small neighboring ranches gave exhibitions of quick roping and throwing and of broncho busting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cordage; gear; rig; rigging; service; serving; tack; tackle; whipping
