cragsman
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Once on the summit the successful cragsman can have any wish he may pine for.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by H. C. Hart
"Not the hardiest cragsman, not my son himself," she said, "could venture on such a morning to guide you to—" "Whither, gracious dame?" asked Theurdank, half smiling.
From The Dove in the Eagle's Nest by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
La Fauconnaire is, I believe, unclimbable except at one place, at least for those who are not experienced cragsmen or Alpine experts.
From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling
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
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
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
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