No cragsman in broadest daylight could do such a thing, he asserted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

But now, at the present moment, he was unwilling to make essay of his prowess as a cragsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of all countries] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Prester John] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

It is not an essential part of the route we are about to suggest, and we would rather decline the responsibility of recommending it to the attention of any one who is not a practised cragsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Pale, trembling in every limb, and spattered with the vulture's blood as well as that which trickled from the many wounds he had received, the valiant young cragsman sank helplessly to the ground, where he lay for some minutes, paralyzed with the terrible exertion he had gone through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

For such work a mountaineer or a cragsman, or Winifred, is needed. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aylwin] Reference

Being something of a cragsman, I did manage to get half way to the top of that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost World] Reference

"We are going to the village to get a cragsman with a rope, and will be with you anon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex] Reference

Waving our shillelagh, we shouted the cragsman to Glenmalure and Carn Tual, and Achill and Slieve League.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference

Narrow ledges, overlooking an abyss the fathomless depths of which would make even a trained cragsman giddy, are very favorite resorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big-Horn Sheep] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Life of George Borrow]

Meanwhile I had become a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad has seldom opportunities of aspiring; for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

Tehaa, alone among the Raiateans, was cragsman enough to venture the perilous way, and dawn found him in a rock-barricaded nook, a hundred yards to the right of Grief and Mauriri.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son Of The Sun] Reference

Yet, though woodcraft is harder to learn, it does not imply the possession of such valuable qualities as mountaineering; and when cragsman and woodman meet on neutral ground, the former is apt to be the better man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776] Reference

It was supposed to be inaccessible till Dr. Grohmann's time, when the fortunate discovery of a certain cleft by one of his Cortina guides, opened the way to the German cragsman and to all who should come after him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys] Reference

On ordinary occasions a big-horn, when menaced by danger, flees beyond its reach with instant decision and headlong speed, disappearing with incredible rapidity over ground where it needs an expert cragsman to so much as follow at a walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big-Horn Sheep] Reference

He took a turn or two up and down, and stopped again to look up the steep cliff slope running high above him from the shelf on which his duty lay, this being over one of the spots where it would be possible for a daring cragsman to get down to the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witness to the Deed] Reference

I had now got greatly stronger; and, if not quite up to my old thirty miles per day, nor altogether so bold a cragsman as I had been only a few years before, I was at least vigorous enough to enjoy a middling long walk, and to breast a tolerably steep hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

Although a good cragsman, my climb had been a rough one, and I now sat down to rest on the top of the cliff before I commenced mounting higher, which it was necessary to do in order to get above the falls, and from thence make my way down the further side of the mountain on to the open ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Rocky Mountains] Reference

But the old beggar could only shake his head and answer sadly: "I was a bold enough cragsman once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

"I was a bold cragsman," said Ochiltree, "once in my life; but it's lang syne, and nae mortal could speel them without a rope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction] Reference