cragsman
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But now, at the present moment, he was unwilling to make essay of his prowess as a cragsman.
From Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope
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 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 John Buchan
All four men were born mountaineers, good climbers, and they were led by the most expert cragsman I have seen.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
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
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
‘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
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
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
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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