cragsman

Example Sentences

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He would go out on all-day excursions, enjoying the thrills of clambering up to what appeared to be inaccessible ledges, until eventually he became an expert cragsman.

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George

He's really a good cragsman and knows exactly how far he can go.

From Lister's Great Adventure by Bindloss, Harold

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

He must be helmsman and chief, the cragsman, the rifleman, the boat steerer.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore