"Oh, yes, I can lasso a snubbing-post that can't get out of the way!" he retorted. ❋ Edyth Ellerbeck Read (1924)
Instantly Devil stopped and meekly followed Roosevelt to the snubbing-post, where he was tied up for a period of 'gentling.' ❋ Hermann Hagedorn (1923)
East of the ranch-house beside a patch of kitchen-garden, stood the strongly made circular horse-corral, with a snubbing-post in the middle, and at some distance from it the larger cow-corral for the branding of the cattle. ❋ Hermann Hagedorn (1923)
Gregory dropped by the snubbing-post in the bow and tugged at the heavy chain and knotted it about the block. ❋ Brayton Norton (1914)
They watched him with silent hostility as he dismounted, tied his horse to a snubbing-post worn shiny as a razor-strap, and sauntered into the ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)
Inch by inch the outlaw was worked to the snubbing-post. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
He held barely enough slack to make the snubbing-post, but finally took a turn round it and fought the horse up. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
For the silent rising of naked, paint-daubed Indians from out of the ground, the quick closing in of the cordon, similar to the turn of a lariat around a snubbing-post when a pony weakens for a moment, is calculated to shake the nerves of the strongest of ❋ Edmund Day (1894)
Bud, with the help of Fresno and Show Low, takes a turn about the snubbing-post, easing up the rope to prevent the horse from breaking his neck when he falls. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)
This corral has a circular fence slightly higher than a man's head with a snubbing-post in the center. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)
The strongly made, circular horse-corral, with a snubbing-post in the middle, stands close by; the larger cow-corral, in which the stock is branded, may be some distance off. ❋ Unknown (1885)
The snubbing-post is the usual adjunct in teaching such a lesson; but a skillful man can do without any help and throw a horse clean over by holding the rope tight against the left haunch, at the same time leaning so far back, with the legs straight in front, that the heels dig deep into the ground when the strain comes, and the horse, running out with the slack of the rope, is brought up standing, or even turned head over heels by the shock. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Some horses soon get tame and do not need to be roped; my pet cutting pony, little Muley, and good old Manitou, my companion in so many hunting trips, will neither of them stay with the rest of their fellows that are jamming and jostling each other as they rush round in the dust of the corral, but they very sensibly walk up and stand quietly with the men in the middle, by the snubbing-post. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The stable, sheds, and other out-buildings, with the hayricks and the pens for such cattle as we bring in during winter, are near the house; the patch of fenced garden land is on the edge of the woods; and near the middle of the glade stands the high, circular horse-corral, with a snubbing-post in the center, and a wing built out from one side of the gate entrance, so that the saddle-band can be driven in without trouble. ❋ Unknown (1896)
He's been practising on the snubbing-post in the corral for hours every day, -- he's got so he catches it about once in so often, and he's tickled to death. " ❋ Edyth Ellerbeck Read (1924)
