All 5 Uses of
sheer
in
The Call of the Wild
- He was crying with sheer rage and eagerness as he circled back and forth for a chance to spring in.†
Chpt 3
- He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.†
Chpt 3
- It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable.†
Chpt 5 *
- The boat flirted over and snubbed in to the bank bottom up, while Thornton, flung sheer out of it, was carried down-stream toward the worst part of the rapids, a stretch of wild water in which no swimmer could live.†
Chpt 6
- Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(sheer as in: a sheer blouse) typically of fabric: very thin and delicate -- often transparent