cragsman
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He must be helmsman and chief, the cragsman, the rifleman, the boat steerer.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt
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 Jack London
Dickson's heart fell, for he did not profess to be a cragsman and had indeed a horror of precipitous places.
From Huntingtower by John Buchan
I was a bold cragsman," said Ochiltree, "once in my life; but it's lang syne, and nae mortal could speel them without a rope.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
The expert cragsman climbs to attain acrobatic efficiency, and may aim at nothing higher than inspired legs.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
The superman is Captain Keith Mallory, a New Zealand mountaineer, "idol of the cragsmen," hero of legendary exploits in the Cretan resistance.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had heard of many cragsmen who had lost their lives in that way, and his own position was by no means the most favorable to defend himself against attack.
From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
The natives are expert cragsmen, and much of their time is occupied in collecting birds' feathers.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
Neither of them doubted his own footing, and George was sure that three or four of the men who had come with Sir Robert were equally good cragsmen.
From Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Their enemy is worthy of them, for the chamois hunters, the foresters, the cragsmen of the Austrian Alps are no mean antagonists, as all of us know who have shot and climbed with them.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
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