"Riata" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... continued with a fringed and beaded shirt of buckskin, and concluded with large, tinkling spurs. Of course, there were things between his shirt and his heels, but all leather and deadly weapons. He had also a riata, a cuerta, and tapaderos, and frequently employed these Spanish names for the objects. I wish that I had not lost Tommy's photograph in Rocky Mountain costume. You must understand that he was really pretty, with blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, and a graceful figure; and, besides, he had twenty-four ...
— Lin McLean • Owen Wister
... know the crowd too well; they couldn't resist the chance to let him have it; so no guns at all. It's ten to one on the riata." ...
— Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac • Ernest Thompson Seton
... sufficiently notable for remark. At half past two Dick rose in his stirrups with a great shout. Stars were glittering through the rifted clouds, and beyond him, out of the plain, rose two spires, a flagstaff, and a straggling line of black objects. Dick jingled his spurs and swung his riata, Jovita bounded forward, and in another moment they swept into Tuttleville and drew up before the wooden piazza of "The Hotel ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte |
