cragsman

Example Sentences

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Waving our shillelagh, we shouted the cragsman to Glenmalure and Carn Tual, and Achill and Slieve League.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

A few jolting fragments of rock were all that was left of it—insufficient even for a practiced cragsman to make his way along on either side.

From Bred in the Bone by Payn, James

Tehaa, alone among the Raiateans, was cragsman enough to venture the perilous way, and dawn found him in a rock-barricaded nook, a hundred yards to the right of Grief and Mauriri.

From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack

He would go out on all-day excursions, enjoying the thrills of clambering up to what appeared to be inaccessible ledges, until eventually he became an expert cragsman.

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George

All four men were born mountaineers, good climbers, and they were led by the most expert cragsman I have seen.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward