Both Uses of
sheer
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- At this point it was enlarged from the old road to its present width by cutting into the solid bastion of the rock on the far side of the gorge; and its left or western edge, looking down from the pass and the bridge, was marked and protected by a line of upright cut blocks of stone where its edge fell sheer away to the gorge.†
Chpt 3
- At the sheer rock where the road went out of sight they saw him stop and lean against the rock and fire back up the road.†
Chpt 43 *
Definition:
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(sheer as in: a sheer blouse) typically of fabric: very thin and delicate -- often transparent