If a norther overtakes him, he dismounts and drives the picket-pin into the ground, thus tetheringhis horse, which turns his back, the better to withstand the oncoming wind.
They worked dextrously and rapidly, unsaddling their horses and tethering them where they could graze in the open, drawing up the dead wood until it made a heap which was quickly lighted, and then cooking strips of venison over the coals.
There was also a belt of excellent grass, extending a hundred yards back on either side of the stream, and, unsaddling and tethering their horses, they let them graze.
Obed thought once of tethering them but he reflected that to do so would make them sure targets of the Indian bullets or arrows.
Just cast your eagle eyes about and see if you don't think it looks as if somebody had been here, old top," answered Hippy Wingate, taking in the camp and the tethering ground with a wave of the hand.
Emma Dean, who, following Washington's warning, had run to the tethering place.
He had driven the cart up the lane as far as he could, and after tethering the horse, was now rambling beside the water.
He had noticed that the end of the rope tethering the boat had been tied to the bough of a young willow near the water's edge.
To each board was fastened a looped string for the purpose of tethering the vagrant spirits, and through the loop each baby was made to pass a chubby finger to make sure that its tiny soul would not wander away.
But lest the string and the bead should be broken and lost, he will sometimes tattoo the pattern of the bead on his wrist, and this is found to answer the purpose of tethering his soul quite as well.
Each horse had four fathoms of tethering rope wound several times round his neck.
Mitsos crept to his post behind the bush, after tethering his mule well out of sight, and Yanni went unconcernedly down the hill-side.
Italians attempt to cure fever in like manner by tethering it to a tree The sufferer ties a thread round his left wrist at night, and hangs the thread on a tree next morning.
There followed another merry laugh at Hippy’s expense, then the outfit dismounted and led their ponies to the tethering ground that had been selected for the purpose.
Not a word was exchanged between them until they reached the tethering ground, when Grace suggested that he use her flash lamp, which she handed to him.
Grace started to return to camp and tripped over a tethering stake, measuring her length on the ground.
At the edge of the tethering ground, Grace halted sharply and peered about her.
They had a brief halt at the mouth of the black ravine, toiled up it till they reached Gros's tethering place, and then went on.
I think it would be a good idea to take a look over the cliff before offering any suggestions," answered the lad, dismounting and tethering his pony.
After riding around the pile, Tad dismounted, and, tethering his pony, proceeded to examine the place more carefully.
Tethering out my two pet goats, I took with me two of my guns and quite a lot of ammunition, and the small landing skiff, and made my way back again to the lake.
But expect no sympathy from me," and Chet insisted upon tethering the horses near the camp instead of letting them roam, hobbled.
There was good reason for John Peep's having advised the tetheringof the horses.
The boys climbed up the hillside, after tethering their horses, and crept along over the rocks above the pocket until they could see the herd.
Again the windlass clanked, and the tethering chains drew the great beasts clear of the doorway; and again a valve of the farther door swung ajar, and another prisoner was thrust struggling into the circus.
There was a sharp clank as the windlasses were manned, and the tethering chains were drawn in by perhaps a score of links.
It looks like a deer country," Joses had said as they were tethering the horses amongst some magnificent grass.
Tethering their animals they abstained from giving them food and drink.
They occasionally got adrift, but I usually heard them and got up to make them fast, my small sleeping-tent being right alongside their tethering space.
The ponies were marched to their tethering place without further accident than one falling through into the sea, but he was rescued none the worse.
Here we dismounted, and tethering our horses, left them to browse on the long rich grass which grew luxuriantly and thickly all round.
Tibetan rider is unprovided, for the tethering of his pony at night.
Realizing that after hearing from them he might want to travel at night to make up for lost time, after tethering out his reindeer he crept into his sleeping-bag and, in a moment, fell into a sound sleep.
Tethering him to a tree at a safe distance from the road, he then retraced his way rapidly but cautiously toward the juncture of the two highroads.
He dismounted beside the body, tethering his horse in the hollow between two rocky promontories through which the path swung.
He paid no attention to tethering his pony, but started towards the shack, down-headed, heavy of foot.
Red Perris vanished from her mind, for below her she saw Cordova in the act of tethering Alcatraz to the rack which stood in the middle of the lot; saddle and bridle had been removed--the stallion wore only a stout halter.
After leaving them, and tethering his pony, he had struck off at a quick run for Hartsel's, which was perhaps an eighth of a mile from the graveyard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tethering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
