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    1. • Cinch Gopher Trap has a metal plate with a cinch lasso which catches the gophers


    2. The game inside was girls would dance on the tables while undressing and guys would try to lasso them


    3. stayed there like a lasso around the head of a calf


    4. He made a lasso motion and all gathered around in the lee of a container


    5. I tied them into a lasso and I sent it out to wrap around the inner circle


    6. On top of the bat sat Bella on a finely made saddle with a lasso in her hands as she ordered the bat to stop and lower her down


    7. I’d lasso the wind and weave it into a tender towel


    8. He twirled his lasso as he approached


    9. The girl, urged on by a frantically-meowing cat, was desperately swinging a lasso of silver rope above her head


    10. Maybe then I would have time to grab my rope, tie it into a lasso, and catch this horse

    11. He had no practice with a lasso, but with unconscious ease he tossed the loop into the air


    12. really thick zip tie and used it to lasso her feet then pulled it


    13. vain attempt to lasso one of the creature"s hooves


    14. Then, she felt a rope lasso her body and she screamed


    15. The many moons and asteroids were slung around the new mini-star in circles like a lasso, with each one eventually smashing into the planetglomerate (making what was already a hideously ugly thing into a true monstrosity


    16. She was on horseback, the other end of the lasso twisted around the saddle-knob, and she had suddenly materialized from behind the corner of the nearest house


    17. Emory undid his belt buckle and fashioned a lasso


    18. Ralph turned on his heels and briskly started for the door, making a circle in the air with his finger as if swinging a lasso


    19. Torquil learned how to do lasso tricks and train both the camels and ostriches to do amazing things


    20. As it happened, Yaf needed neither Shap’s thrusters nor Elfi’s lasso because he managed to phase Shap

    21. NOTE: This could be done in several ways including a lasso, grappling hook, webs or a telekinetic force


    22. Emily was on the horse in a few seconds and quickly had the lasso


    23. I see the Wacho crossing the plains, I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his arm,


    24. "Ali," observed his master, as the Nubian entered the chamber, "you have frequently explained to me how more than commonly skilful you are in throwing the lasso, have you not?" Ali drew himself up proudly, and then returned a sign in the


    25. With your lasso you could stop an ox?" Again Ali repeated his affirmative gesture


    26. "A lion even?" Ali sprung forwards, imitating the action of one throwing the lasso, then of a strangled lion


    27. Ali suddenly cast aside his chibouque, drew the lasso from his pocket, threw it so skilfully as to catch the forelegs of the near horse in its triple fold, and suffered himself to be dragged on for a few steps by the violence of the shock, then the animal fell over on the pole, which snapped, and therefore prevented the other horse from pursuing its way


    28. He preferred the unceremonious gatherings of men where he could tell jaguar-hunt stories, boast of his powers with the lasso, with which he could perform extremely difficult feats of the sort "no married man should attempt," as the saying goes amongst the llaneros; relate tales of extraordinary night rides, encounters with wild bulls, struggles with crocodiles, adventures in the great forests, crossings of swollen rivers


    29. dress to her knees and take the rope and lasso the sow before you could say Jack Scarlett knew that if she were just there in the swamp with them, she could tuck up her Robinson


    30. My great fear was that he was already somewhere near us, preparing the Punjab lasso

    31. No one knows better than he how to throw the Punjab lasso, for he is the king of stranglers even as he is the prince of conjurors


    32. It was then that he introduced the sport of the Punjab lasso


    33. Erik had only his lasso; and it was always just when the warrior thought that he was going to fell Erik with a tremendous blow that we heard the lasso whistle through the air


    34. The little sultana herself learned to wield the Punjab lasso and killed several of her women and even of the friends who visited her


    35. With his victim in this attitude, it is impossible even for the most expert strangler to throw the lasso with advantage


    36. This enables you easily to unloose the lasso, which then becomes harmless


    37. And, even then, when these had "had enough," they were always at liberty to put an end to themselves with a Punjab lasso or bowstring, left for their use at the foot of an iron tree


    38. At our feet, I found the Punjab lasso which I had been dreading all the evening


    39. I can well imagine Erik dragging the body, in order to get rid of it, to the scene from the Roi de Lahore, and hanging it there as an example, or to increase the superstitious terror that was to help him in guarding the approaches to his lair! Then, upon reflection, Erik went back to fetch the Punjab lasso, which is very curiously made out of catgut, and which might have set an examining magistrate thinking


    40. de Chagny put the one pistol that was still loaded to his temple; and I stared at the Punjab lasso at the foot of the iron tree

    41. But, as I stared at the Punjab lasso, I saw a thing that made me start so violently that M


    42. I had discovered, near the Punjab lasso, in a groove in the floor, a black-headed nail of which I knew the use


    43. In the window hung a poster-sized print: the father holding a lasso, trying to look menacing under a hat too big for him; the little girl in a calico dress and bonnet, too young to get the joke; the mother, dressed as a whore, giving an uncomfortable smile, her arms crossed in front of her thighs where her petticoat was slit


    44. In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe


    45. This time the beast is not standing still, and you throw your lasso, carefully watching the fall as it whirls through the air


    46. Poor animal! Instead of roping it by the horns, you nearly jerk its tail off! There are very many accomplishments that seem easy in the hands of an expert and which prove most difficult to the uninitiated, but I think the throwing of the lasso can claim more mysteries than most others


    47. They egged him on to tell stories of his prowess with lasso and lariat, of which he was boyishly proud, and listened with flattering attention to his relations of grizzly hunts and Greaser raids


    1. I’d done the job, helped tend the herd and even lassoed a stray


    2. deftly lassoed his head and pul ed the noose tight


    3. Using the chain attached to her collar as a whip, Aazuria lassoed the man who had already lowered his pants


    4. You think he might a’ been lassoed by the law?”


    5. Yama lassoed Upaya from atop his oxen mount


    6. A peaceable Cholo wearing these colours (unusual in Costaguana) was somehow very seldom beaten to within an inch of his life on a charge of disrespect to the town police; neither ran he much risk of being suddenly lassoed on the road by a recruiting party of lanceros—a method of voluntary enlistment looked upon as almost legal in the Republic


    7. Soon two of the black men who’d been concealed along the fence line appeared, lugging a prone, struggling Raider they had lassoed and hog-tied


    8. The porker had been run down and lassoed by the military on the outskirts of the town, so that it was all over now—excepting that the authorities were looking for the perpetrator, or the originator of the scare


    1. Two adults then entered the corral, each swinging a couple rocks spaced at the end of a rope to tangle a rear leg in an action similar to lassoing


    2. Emily was sore from all of the lassoing and also


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    Synonyms for "lasso"

    lariat lasso reata riata orlando di lasso roland de lassus rope hook ensnare entangle net foul catch

    "lasso" definitions

    Belgian composer (1532-1594)


    a long noosed rope used to catch animals


    catch with a lasso