reata
- a variation of riata.
Example Sentences
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It will be painful for Mrs. Darrell to see you as you are, and then you ought to have that reata off now, quickly.
From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.
Interfere no farther between your sister and your parents, unless you prefer that reata to gold.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
One glance satisfied Sturges that Pilar had covered the vaquero, and he devoted the next few moments to dodging the reata.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
He looked down to his breast surprised, and there the coil of a reata held him in an iron grip, and he could not move.
From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.
Let off the reata, walk close to this man.
From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson