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Examples
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Riding toward them, dust raising under his bronco's feet, came a lone horseman.
The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers Willard F. Baker
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Grace's fingers had slowly relaxed their grip on the black bronco's mane, a faint moan escaped her lips, and the Overland girl slipped down under the pony's neck in a dead faint.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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A lump of sugar found its way into the black bronco's mouth from
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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Then suddenly he would leap right up into the air, "swap ends," so the cowboys said, and come down facing the opposite way Then he might rear up and fall backwards, or throw himself down and roll over, but the rider was always on the bronco's back before he could get going again.
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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Surrendering her seat on the bronco's head to a cowboy, Grace got up and insisted in removing Elfreda from her perilous position.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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Fumbling in her pocket, she drew forth a piece of candy and felt rather than, saw the bronco's lips close over the sweet morsel.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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One of our men, with the kindest consideration, much appreciated, confidentially showed me a simple method of tying up a bronco's head with a piece of thin rope, adjusted in a particular way, which made pitching or bucking almost, but not always, an impossibility.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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When the cowboys, with Hi Lang in the lead, reached the Overland girls, they discovered Grace Harlowe calmly sitting on the runaway bronco's head to hold him down.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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Grace knew it in advance of the guide's warning, but, though she tugged with all her might, she was not strong enough to get the black bronco's head up so he could not carry out his intention.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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Sylvane and George Myers threw their lariats about the bronco's neck, and dragged him a few hundred yards, choking but stubborn, all four feet firmly planted and pawing the ground.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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