cragsman

Example Sentences

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No cragsman in broadest daylight could do such a thing, he asserted.

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Scott, Walter, Sir

So defiant is the challenge of this rock that no cragsman can pass it by.

From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.

A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds.

From Prester John by Buchan, John

"We are going to the village to get a cragsman with a rope, and will be with you anon."

From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

But I never got within a thousand feet of it, for the crowning bastions are almost sheer, and would need a better cragsman than myself to negotiate.

From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Cornell, Frederick