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
Excepting head, however, no other quality of a cragsman is required for Sharp Edge; the footing is ample, and the hands would be less called into requisition than even on Striding Edge.'
From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith
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
But now, at the present moment, he was unwilling to make essay of his prowess as a cragsman.
From Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope
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 H. C. Hart
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
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
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
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