trail-rope

I soon stopped, therefore; flung my saddle on the ground, and with my head resting on it, and my horse's trail-rope tied loosely to my arm, lay waiting the arrival of the party, speculating meanwhile on the extent of the injuries Pontiac had received.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The next instant they divided, and there was the Cat, smoke-grimed and blood-stained and still sweating hot from her last fire, being dragged from her muddy ditch by as many men as could get hold of trail-rope or wheel, and rushed into her old place beside the Eagle, in time to be double-shotted with canister to the

Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

But, as the brothers repeated their cry, he turned away to swiftly knot a strong trail-rope to a heavy iron grapnel, leaving the other end firmly attached to a stanchion built for that express purpose.

The Lost City 1898

And a little later I was to learn that during this very winter when she was dragging me bound and helpless at the end of her trail-rope, she was -- but I need not anticipate.

Branded Francis Lynde 1893

Cat, smoke-grimed and blood-stained and still sweating hot from her last fire, being dragged from her muddy ditch by as many men as could get hold of trail-rope or wheel, and rushed into her old place beside the

The Burial of the Guns Thomas Nelson Page 1887

But, as the brothers repeated their cry, he turned away to swiftly knot a strong trail-rope to a heavy iron grapnel, leaving the other end firmly attached to a stanchion built for that express purpose.

The Lost City 1878

The gold dust was then packed in a small portmanteau well secured by numerous cords, and firmly bound on the pack-saddle of an extra horse, which Bradley was to ride alongside of, the bridle of the animal being secured to his arm, and its trail-rope made fast to the saddle of the horse which Bradley himself rode.

California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts Henry Vizetelly 1857

So deciding, he slips out of the saddle; and letting his horse out on the trail-rope, lays himself down.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

Earthly fears, with unearthly fancies, alike urging him to flight, he stays not to make sure whether it be ghost or human; but, hastily taking up his trail-rope, springs to the back of his horse, and again goes off in wild terrified retreat.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

The thought holds him secure, as if a trail-rope attached him to the tail of the hunter's horse.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850