cragsman
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cragsmen
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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 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
A few jolting fragments of rock were all that was left of it—insufficient even for a practiced cragsman to make his way along on either side.
From Bred in the Bone by James Payn
"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 Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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
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
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
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
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
He had heard of many cragsmen who had lost their lives in that way, and his own position was by no means the most favorable to defend himself against attack.
From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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