One Spot, Two Spot and Three Spot were tearing round and round at the end of their tethers, in the wildest alarm, evidently, while the cayuses were stamping and snorting, with distended nostrils and wild, frightened eyes.
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering
As for the stock, they were still plunging wildly about and snorting in a terrified fashion, and, had it not been for their stout raw-hide tethers, they would undoubtedly have stampeded.
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering
Thus for fifteen years the restless child tugged unsuccessfully at the parental tethers till relief came from an unexpected quarter.
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor