cragsman

Example Sentences

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Dickson's heart fell, for he did not profess to be a cragsman and had indeed a horror of precipitous places.

From Huntingtower by Buchan, John

But I never got within a thousand feet of it, for the crowning bastions are almost sheer, and would need a better cragsman than myself to negotiate.

From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Cornell, Frederick

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 Hart, H. C.

For such work a mountaineer or a cragsman, or Winifred, is needed.'

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

"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 Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)