riata

• “We also tried some charred lamb skewers with great, spicy, cucumber riata.”

  Portland Trip « I HEART BACON

• “He tore the riata from his saddle and began to beat her to the ground with it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deuces Wild

• “With a riata over his shoulder to rope some great horses from the herd, he looked forward to the adventure.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deuces Wild

• “We will fashion a halter and tie a post to the end of a riata for her to drag.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deuces Wild

• “Deuces tied the riata off and in the gathering darkness dropped to his hands and knees to measure the width between his scalp and the soil.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deuces Wild

• “She looked at the _riata_ and sniffed it disparagingly; she pawed some pebbles that were near me tentatively with her small hoof; she started back with a Robinson-Crusoe-like horror of my footprints in the wet gully, but my actual personal presence she ignored.”

  Short Stories of Various Types

• “It was not long, however, before I was interrupted by shouts and screams from that vicinity and on returning thither I found that Chu Chu, with the assistance of her _riata_, had securely wound up two of my neighbors to the tree, where they presented the appearance of early”

  Short Stories of Various Types

• “And to tell the truth, as Enriquez and I fell back, although I had insisted upon still keeping hold of the end of the _riata_, it was a picture to admire.”

  Short Stories of Various Types

• “I would not that you should hold the _riata_," said Consuelo petulantly.”

  Short Stories of Various Types

• “When I reached my house in the suburbs, before entering the "fifty vara" lot inclosure, I deemed it prudent to leave her outside while I informed the household of my purchase; and with this object I tethered her by the long _riata_ to a solitary sycamore which stood in the centre of the road, the crossing of two frequented thoroughfares.”

  Short Stories of Various Types

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