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- It was sheer frenzy of this sort which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Turner.
- They could only have come from the old man at my side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his fingers.
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as in: a sheer blouse Define
typically of fabric: very thin and delicate -- often transparent
as in: sheer fun
Define
complete or pure -- without restriction, qualification, or other elements (used for emphasis)
as in: a sheer cliff
Define
so steep it is almost vertical
as in: sheered to the left
Define
change direction abruptly; or to cause such a change of direction
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