All 10 Uses of
sheer
in
The Man of the Forest
- They resumed travel, sheering off to the right and keeping to the edge of the intersecting canuon.†
Chpt 8 *
- Above sheered the black, gold-patched slopes, steep and unscalable, rising to buttresses of dark, iron-hued rock.†
Chpt 9
- Helen's senses thrilled with the grace and charm and vitality of this surprising sister, and she was aware of a sheer physical joy in her presence.†
Chpt 10
- But fear of danger, pity for the chased lion, consciousness of foolish risk, of a reckless disregard for the serious responsibility I have taken—all these worked in my mind and held back what might have been a sheer physical, primitive joy of the wild moment.†
Chpt 11
- A third time the heavy gun spoke and this bullet must have ticked Riggs, for he let out a hoarse bawl and leaped sheer for the protection of a rock.†
Chpt 20
- They did not travel more than a dozen miles during the afternoon, but they climbed bench after bench until they reached the timbered plateau that stretched in sheer black slope up to the peaks.†
Chpt 21
- In sheer desperation the outlaw leader fired his gun at the black wall whence the cry came.†
Chpt 23
- Then suddenly alive with sheer mad physical gladness, she rushed out.†
Chpt 24
- Then he crashed through the doors, and with a wild yell leaped sheer into the saddle, hauling his horse up high and goading him to plunge away.†
Chpt 25
- She walked round and round him, clasping her hands in sheer delight.†
Chpt 26 *
Definitions:
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(sheer as in: a sheer blouse) typically of fabric: very thin and delicate -- often transparent
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(sheer as in: sheer to the left) change direction; or to cause such a change of direction -- usually abruptly