cragsman

Example Sentences

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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 Hart, H. C.

"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)

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

With this new danger menacing him, the young cragsman lay flat down on the rock, and remained motionless, while he offered up an earnest prayer to Heaven that the bird might not discover him.

From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Waving our shillelagh, we shouted the cragsman to Glenmalure and Carn Tual, and Achill and Slieve League.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)