cragsman
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The expert cragsman climbs to attain acrobatic efficiency, and may aim at nothing higher than inspired legs.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
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
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 H. C. Hart
He's really a good cragsman and knows exactly how far he can go.
From Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss
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
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
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
Jack-booted, buff-coated troopers; scarlet militiamen; brown, stern-faced Tauntonians; serge-clad pikemen; wild, ragged miners; smockfrocked yokels; reckless, weather-tanned seamen; gaunt cragsmen from the northern coast—all pushed and jostled each other in a thick, many-coloured crowd.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Neither of them doubted his own footing, and George was sure that three or four of the men who had come with Sir Robert were equally good cragsmen.
From Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte Mary Yonge
