His body was all swollen, and his mouth and nostrils ran down like a river with sea-water, so that he could neither breathe nor speak, and lay swooning from
sheer exhaustion; presently, when he had got his breath and came to himself again, he took off the scarf that Ino had given him and threw it back into the salt {54} stream of the river, whereon Ino received it into her hands from the wave that bore it towards her.
The sea was breaking on the few yards of beach
sheer below the windows.
Even as he spoke, two seamen appeared in the scuttle, carrying Ransome in their arms; and the ship at that moment giving a great
sheer into the sea, and the lantern swinging, the light fell direct on the boy's face.
The music-seller having taken leave of his senses from
sheer astonishment, and I having no evening costume to appear in, we sent the doctor to make the necessary apology to the public, who were calling for her till the place rang again.
One looks straight down upon the vast frozen river called the Gorner Glacier, from the Gorner Grat, a
sheer precipice twelve hundred feet high.
"Upon the fact that to the virtues and merits of the civilised Westerner there has become historically added--though this is not his chief point--a capacity for acquiring capital; whereas, not only is the Russian incapable of acquiring capital, but also he exhausts it wantonly and of
sheer folly.
Hayward, in London too, intended to spend the winter abroad, but remained week after week from
sheer inability to make up his mind to go.
His hands were bony claws, his emaciated face a
sheer death's-head.
The supernatural influences that some of us felt when we first slept in this hotel-- your loss of appetite, our sister's dreadful dreams, the smell that overpowered Francis, and the head that appeared to Agnes--I declare them all to be
sheer delusions!
"
Sheer delusion would be the more correct form of expression," the doctor rejoins.
I have witnessed the deaths of old and young, and even infants, from
sheer starvation.
"I sing so well," said he, "that sixteen native grasshoppers who have chirped from infancy, and yet got no house built of cards to live in, grew thinner than they were before for
sheer vexation when they heard me."