Cragsmen

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

The long walks and our work as cragsmen hardened our thews, and made us eat and sleep as even our life on the ranch could hardly do: the mountaineer must always be more sinewy than the horseman. ❋ Unknown (1896)

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. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Sooth to say, except for the strait pass along the river at the eastern end, and the wider pass at the western, they had no other way (save one of which a word anon) out of the Dale but such as mountain goats and bold cragsmen might take; and even of these but few. ❋ William Morris (1865)

'Nay, none that folk wot of,' said Dallach, 'except to bold cragsmen with their lives in their hands.' ❋ William Morris (1865)

Woodlanders and the Wolf -- huntsmen, cragsmen, and scourers of the ❋ William Morris (1865)

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. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

After the group built them in January and cached food and supplies, we could complete the traverse like the cragsmen of the Alps, replacing tents and freeze-dried meals in our packs with fondue sets and bottles of Chateau Margaux. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In former times the puffin furnished the islanders, as in St. Kilda, with a staple article of food, in those hungry months of summer in which the stores of the old crop had begun to fail, and the new crop had not yet ripened; and the people of Eigg, taught by their necessities, were bold cragsmen. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

Now the fighting-men of Shadowy Vale were two long hundreds lacking five; of whom two score and ten were women, and three score and ten lads under twenty winters; but the women, though you might scarce see fairer of face and body, were doughty in arms, all good shooters in the bow; and the swains were eager and light-foot, cragsmen of the best, wont to scaling the cliffs of the Vale in search of the nests of gerfalcons and such-like fowl, and swimming the strong streams of the Shivering Flood; tough bodies and wiry, stronger than most grown men, and as fearless as the best. ❋ William Morris (1865)