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    1. Once she entered the area, the hardest thing to fathom was the sheer bulk of the assembly that was missing, she could float in the space


    2. I’m just not used to the sheer exuberance he carries around like an aura and, by the time they leave, I am shattered


    3. The sheer physical effort required for this foray along the corridor left me completely shattered for a good half hour


    4. A flash of sheer panic sweeps though me … surely I couldn’t be pregnant … that would be too cruel … I wipe away the tears which are running down my face, but they come faster than I can wipe them away


    5. The sheer closeness of other bodies, of living, breathing fellow travellers, completely changed my view of the world


    6. So much of what we said was lost in the sheer exuberance of the moment, and of all the things that we probably chatted about only one subject sticks in my mind


    7. They were dressed only in sheer wrap-skirts and were very sweetly shaped, though nothing like the size of Shingcress


    8. about you losing yourself completely in the moment of sheer


    9. The sheer mass of stone and brick surrounding him compressed his sight


    10. It was hot but not as humid this Afternoonday, her sheer skirt would dry soon

    11. Yet again, Kara felt the impact of the massive divide between her culture and that of Earth – something the exploration of the seaside resort had highlighted; the sheer volume of … words failed her … stuff that was on sale in the shops … most of it completely superfluous … badly made, cheap (in every meaning of the word) ornaments of no practical use whatsoever and precious little artistic merit, deliberately manufactured to clutter up somebody’s home … and then there was the food and drink on offer! Everywhere she’d looked there had been foodstuffs on sale and people eating … battered fish, hot savoury smelling sausages, the tart scent of vinegar on chips fresh from the fryers … and ices of every conceivable flavour … and those unbelievable sweets in all shapes and sizes … and, according to Iain, this particular seaside resort was a relatively small one … by the time Iain turned off the motorway at the Taunton interchange, she had concluded that although it had been fun visiting, really, when it came down to it, she preferred her own world


    12. brittle grains of truth bend to the sheer arctic winds


    13. ’ I said almost defiantly … sure is one thing I am not at the moment, but I can imagine that I shall be climbing the walls out of sheer boredom by then


    14. but the weight of water in my skin and the sheer,


    15. He is untrained and almost went mad because of it, only his sheer force of will has kept him sane


    16. with the silence that comes from sheer bloody refusal,


    17. I stand by the rail, my hair tossing in the strong breeze, just enjoying the sheer exuberance of the waves


    18. and crashed into the sheer


    19. I told him this Yoga story about keeping a potato near one’s skin and he looked at me in sheer amazement


    20. These instructions are simplicity itself and even the photograph of me lying with my head, shoulders and legs raised can give you little idea of the sheer muscular effort involved in holding them that way

    21. Sheer Act of Will


    22. With a cry, I drop the brush and fly into his arms, half crying with sheer joy


    23. After twenty minutes of sheer and utter frustration, and with a nose that was black and blue from battering the cage bars, he finally sat back on the floor and, for the first time in his life, admitted to himself just how long his nose really was


    24. OF all the gems in the rich collection of Yoga asanas there shines forth one which, in sheer beauty, symmetry and grace, outshines all others except, perhaps, the serene Lotus, that impenetrable fortress of repose


    25. The world seems to grow ever smaller, with the grandeur of sheer distance made into a commonplace game of skipping by the advent of more efficient means of travel and the communications revolution that has blossomed in the bright sunshine of this digital spring


    26. By dint of sheer willpower and a certain amount of gritting of the teeth against the pain, I manage to get dressed and pack up my bags again


    27. Many of the black devils fled in sheer horror


    28. The sheer numbers of these creatures was overwhelming them


    29. He was also deeply impressed by the sheer opulence on display inside his friend’s sumptuous motor car and in between fits of pique about the riff-raff who walked today’s streets, he wondered whether he could get a car like this as a perk of his new job


    30. A lovely girl in sheer pantaloons and blouse met them, "The Dusksleep band is already on," she said, "and I'm sorry but the cookfires are already cold

    31. The Queen and her family, who were sitting on the judging panel for the final, could do nothing but gasp in sheer ecstasy


    32. It’s just the sheer enormity of the job!’


    33. It would have been so easy to jump, or was that exactly what they wanted? I could drop into the void, a sheer drop without any fear of flying


    34. Then, to my sheer delight she lifted her stubby little palm to her lips and blew me a kiss


    35. As far as she was concerned she could walk over the village and subdue it by sheer intimidation


    36. “This bloody family’s falling apart”, said Ken, giving his wife a look of sheer exasperation


    37. ” Rayne hugged him out of sheer joy


    38. They were a little more sheer, the breeze pressed them to her body a little more closely than it did during business, and the colors were a little brighter and the patterns a lot bolder


    39. sheer nastiness of the man who was soon to be consigned to marital


    40. twenty minutes of sheer and utter frustration, and with a nose that

    41. As you’ve seen, these tests are not about sheer physical


    42. visitor, always remarked on the sheer beauty and splendour of the


    43. the final, could do nothing but gasp in sheer ecstasy


    44. By sheer good luck she found out about Danvers House and applied


    45. I sigh with sheer delight at the thought


    46. sheer volume of air time made over to the spiritual harmonies and


    47. as you said, she wasn't anything much to look at, but her personality and sheer vitality were incredibly attractive


    48. If it comes off, there may be other commissions … there are lots of organisations like the Foundation which were established through the blood, sweat and sheer determination of individuals, it’s a rather English thing, I think, though I may be wrong there


    49. And those remaining, very few, who through bigotry or sheer ignorance had despised the little family's presence in the village, now had to be very cautious indeed to at least never publicly hint at any lingering misgivings regarding the Livingsons they might still privately harbor


    50. Even Billy is aware of the odour; stage sweat, the remains of half cleaned Leichner, disinfectant, grime, sleep and sheer bloody terror














































    1. Stonework had been sheered through and none of the windows had glass as far as he could see


    2. This, coupled with the enormous surge of pressure, sheered the heads off the rivets holding the casing together


    3. They had retrieved most of the pieces of Blondie’s sheered off landing gear from the water and in the process had discovered an abundance of sea life


    4. One of her props sheered off half way down the runway when it was hit by an anti-aircraft gun making the takeoff difficult, but she wrestled the beast into the air, to orbit and safety


    5. There were dark thunderclouds on the western horizon toward Conway though Wickland knew the chances of the storms making it across the Intracoastal Waterway without being sheered apart were about even odds


    6. Harry sheered off to starboard when he was about a mile away, much to


    7. They looked from afar at isolated cottages and little inns, and were inclined to approach one of the latter, when their hearts failed them, and they sheered off


    8. “She never budged until she was within ten foot of the flat, and then, jest as I was commencin’ the third line of ‘Now I lay me,’ she sheered off and went past in a wide curve, with Lonesome steerin’ with one hand and shakin’ his pitchfork at Todd with t’other


    9. We sheered dangerously


    1. This ridding your body of excessive waste, and the practice of Yoga asanas and breathing exercises will go a long way towards sheering that superfluous fat from your body and here is a Yoga asana which will help you on your way


    2. (This was the time of sheering sheep


    3. As Syn shot after the falling petal, hypnotized by the glowing lure just out of reach, the great dragon assumed a streamlined form in the sheering wind


    4. A sheering blade of pain cut through her eyes and checked her halfway to her feet


    5. The bearded axe-head hit the horseman’s thigh instead, sheering through mail legging, linen trousers, and flesh to jar against bone


    6. But not a bit daunted, Queequeg steered us manfully; now sheering off from this monster directly across our route in advance; now edging away from that, whose colossal flukes were suspended overhead, while all the time, Starbuck stood up in the bows, lance in hand, pricking out of our way whatever whales he could reach by short darts, for there was no time to make long ones


    1. They were things she only wore in the Kassikan, like the thin layers of sheers that she had on now beneath her shoulder-fur of russet miniscamp


    2. I would attach hydrolytic sheers to one backhoe and the other a grappling claw to hold the piece being cut


    3. Light streamed in through the billowing sheers of the bedroom curtains and the phone was ringing


    4. The sun, however, was streaming through the sheers at the window, and I glanced


    5. When I arrived at that warp, it was early morning and I was standing at the sheers of a


    6. On the other side of a wooden fence a small, round woman stood pruning her garden with a pair of sheers


    7. At one of the windows, I drew open the draperies with the pull cord and pushed aside the lace sheers


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