Soon they emerged on to what was open country, and speedily found themselves right under a ledge of rock which rose sheerly above their heads to a height of twenty or thirty feet.
I was still turning this over in that portion of my mind which wasn't occupied with the sheerly mechanical side of my work when I reached the house.
I was learning how utterly bookish, how sheerly a literary man Penton Baxter was .
I sensed their abandonment to the sheerly physical, till it took in their whole horizon.
Standing before a window, gazing idly out into the light-spangled night, was a young woman, rather tall and severely gowned in some rich, glistening stuff which fell away sheerly from her splendid bare shoulders.
He was no longer bound and dwarfed by an alien, superimposed end which is just as sheerly brutal to man's soul as an alien world is sheerly brutal to man's body.
It was no longer a world alien to man's nature and it therefore ceased to be sheerly brutal to him.
At such times there is in his eyes a bluish fire like the gleam of charcoal, while his crooked fingers writhe like worms, and his outward appearance becomes sheerly that of a magician of iniquity.
For the moment, as they stood there, they seemed so sheerly dissimilar that they might have come of alien races, from different zones.
The gray house was, at first, ofsheerly pastoral intent.
As she smiled he realized again how beautiful she was, a gorgeous girl of miraculous freshness and sheerly honorable eyes.
This is inevitable; Virginians and Bostonians to the contrary notwithstanding, an aristocracy founded sheerly on money postulates wealth in the particular.
He counted more on the personal attacks that they had levelled at Shuttleworth than on the more sheerly legal aspects of the proceedings.
She lay there for something over two hours--so she calculated afterward, sheerly by piecing together the bits of time.
Here, now, in feigning to imitate the unfortunate Hempel, he was sheerly irresistible.
Mary's firm, capable hands looked out of place on a piano; seemed to stand in a sheerly business relation to the keys.
But to her he was silent, sheerly from the dread of again receiving the answer: take me as I am, or leave me!
He was dimly aware of trouble close at hand, when the terminal examinations should betray his idleness; but it was impossible to worry over what was now sheerly inevitable.
Here she hung, staring down at them as demurely if not quite so sheerly beautiful as of old.
Its phlegm is sheerly imperturbable, its serenity of that large-souled order which cataclysms cannot ruffle nor revolutions disturb.
In a heat that was sheerly tropical the battle had raged to and fro.
The fatal assimilative power of the Jew is revealed nowhere in music more sheerly than in the style of Mahler.
For the man who could write music so crude, so sheerly strong, so hurtling, music innocent of past or tradition, the world must indeed have been in the first day of its creation.
But the self-adoration of Germans is so naive, so frank, so unqualified, as to seem sheerly ridiculous to more experienced nations.
The notions of dividing up Germany among the Allies, or of adding France and the British Empire to Germany, aresheerly fantastic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheerly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: plumb; sheer; square
