cragsman
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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 James Payn
I became a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad can seldom aspire, for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
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
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
For such work a mountaineer or a cragsman, or Winifred, is needed.'
From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
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
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
Jack-booted, buff-coated troopers; scarlet militiamen; brown, stern-faced Tauntonians; serge-clad pikemen; wild, ragged miners; smockfrocked yokels; reckless, weather-tanned seamen; gaunt cragsmen from the northern coast—all pushed and jostled each other in a thick, many-coloured crowd.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This added to the evil repute of the mountain; years passed before the cragsmen would have anything further to do with it.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
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
