cragsman
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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
Being something of a cragsman, I did manage to get half way to the top of that.
From The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"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 Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
He's really a good cragsman and knows exactly how far he can go.
From Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss
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 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
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‘Nay, none that folk wot of,’ said Dallach, ‘except to bold cragsmen with their lives in their hands.’
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris
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
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
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