sheer
/ʃɪɚ/ verbo C2- To swerve from a course.
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I made her three good, warm, serviceable ones this fall, and anything more is sheer extravagance.
Madame de Villefort, who was alone in her drawing-room when the count was announced, desired that her son might be brought thither instantly to renew his thanks to the count; and Edward, who heard this great personage talked of for two whole days, made all possible haste to come to him, not from obedience to his mother, or out of any feeling of gratitude to the count, but from sheer curiosity, and that some chance remark might give him the opportunity for making one of the impertinent speeches which made his mother say:
You and I know that he died of sheer fright, and we know also what frightened him, but how are we to get twelve stolid jurymen to know it?
On that side a ridge of rocks ended in a sheer cliff which overlooked a stone-strewn slope.
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