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Sheer horror of herself came over her, and yet she could have shouted with joy each time that the thought flashed through her brain: "The other must die! [10]
Sheer courage carried her through it, I know, for her hand trembled so when I took it, and she was very pale. [9]

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My life is sheer misery. [10]

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The thing went wrong, but checking off my blunder he blundered too,--out of sheer wonder, perhaps, at my bungling,--and I disarmed him. [11]
Howbeit, my cousin would not do the like service for the Knight of Welemisl, in whose mien and manners he put less trust, wherefore I became his surety, out of sheer pity and at Herdegen's prayer. [10]
The little old woman scarce knew where she was for sheer amazement, nor wist she who he was till he broke out into his old loud laugh at the sight of her dismay. [10]
His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good-day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. [10]
There were others who had climbed to success in their own way, some by happy accident, some by a force which disregarded anything in their way, and some by sheer honest rough merit, through which the soul of the true pioneer shone. [11]
On two occasions, when the falls were sheer, they had to disembark and walk along little portages through the green raspberry bushes. [9]
The result was what the reader has by this time guessed: the most magnificent idea that was ever conceived had to be abandoned, from sheer lack of a person with enterprise enough to carry it out. [5]
For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
Nay, he presently went to such lengths that our Franconian and Nuremberg nobles could but turn away their faces, inasmuch as he began so wild and unseemly a dance as was overmuch even for me, despite my youth and sheer delight in the quick measure. [10]
I believe I went out of sheer curiosity to hear what Hodder would have to say. [9]
The band itself was half asleep, but by sheer force of habit it kept on, the fiddlers drawing the perfunctory bows, and the melancholy clarionet men breathing their expressive sighs. [4]
He was prepared to wipe out the fishing-post if Mattingley did not produce Ranulph--well, "here was Ranulph duly produced and insultingly setting up a tent on this sheer rock, with some snippet of the devil," said Richambeau, and defying a great French war-ship. [11]
She yielded herself to the witchery of the hour, the sheer delight of forthfaring into the unknown. [9]
It brought back to her the real motive of her visit, which had in reality been inspired not only by the sermon of the day before, but by sheer curiosity. [9]
At any rate, this modern notion of giving them their liberty is sheer folly. [9]
But there was this difference between the two: there was a confidence that Mrs. Laflamme would never drive over the edge, whereas no one could tell what sheer Carmen might not suddenly take. [4]
Little by little they drew to the edge of the rock, from which there was a sheer drop of two hundred feet. [11]
Honora found in the very atmosphere a certain magic which she did not try to define, but to the enjoyment of which she abandoned herself; and in those first days after her arrival she took a sheer delight in driving about the island. [9]
It has been the sheer luck of the game. [11]
The spot where the landing was made was the only one in that stretch where footing could have been found on the shore; everywhere else precipices came sheer down into forty fathoms of water. [5]
The trail down the five hundred feet of sheer depth always tested Venters's nerve. [13]
This feeling, on the drive homeward, was swept away by sheer elation at the prospect of the trip before her. [9]
The Clerk of the Court, from sheer habit of his profession, watched human faces as other people watch the weather, or the rise or fall in the price of wheat and potatoes. [11]
Some leaned against the cliff, others against each other; many stood sheer and alone; all were crumbling, cracked, rotten. [13]
The shivering of the boat under the beating of the wheels was sheer misery to them. [5]
To the fact that he had ruined, by sheer over-righteousness, the last years of the sunny life of Sarah Austen he had been oblivious--until to-day. [9]
Didn't the admiral tell the story at the dinner we gave him of how this ex-convict and mutineer, by sheer genius, broke the power of the French at the critical moment and saved our fleet, though it was only three-fourths that of the French? [11]
The tempest which swept them forward, and the water through which they waded, only seemed to increase their enjoyment, for sheer delight rang in their exulting shouts and yells. [10]
For sheer hatred--as sure as man is the standard for all things--merely carried away by a hideous impulse to spite their neighbor for not thinking as they do--nay, simply for not being themselves--to hurt him, insult him, work him woe. [10]
On the farther summit, above Anacapri, a precipice of two thousand feet sheer down to the water on the other side, hangs a light cloud. [4]
It was all so paltry that, in sheer disgust, I should have kicked every ladder down that helped me up. [11]
On the other side was a narrow margin, and then a sheer wall of hills in exquisite verdure. [11]
I could have shot him, from sheer vexation. [5]
I rose and shook Krebs's hand: sheer inability to express my emotion drove me to commonplaces. [9]
If that isn't sheer folly and a sin and a shame. [10]
I halted in sheer embarrassment on the threshold, looked up at his face, and came on, troubled. [9]
The view, looking sheer down into the broad valley, eastward, from this great elevation--almost a perpendicular mile--was very quaint and curious. [5]
It was from sheer amazement that his tears ceased to flow--amazement and lack of breath--for the beautiful lady sprang up and seized him in her arms, and called Mathilde, who eventually brought a white and gold box. [9]
And presently, when she was able to wag it, it went on for a long time with no pause nor rest, in sheer impatience and godless railing. [10]
This realization, that she loved him, as it persisted, began to make him uneasy, though it should, according to all experience, have been a reason for sheer exultation. [9]
Then at length she freed herself and, albeit she was gasping for breath, her voice was one of sheer triumph as she cried: "I had to come, and here I am! [10]
What he had seen in the man's eyes had aroused in him sheer terror, for it was the image of something in his own soul which had summarily gained supremacy and led him hither, unresisting, to its own abiding-place. [9]
There came a second of sheer terror, a hoarse challenge in French, and then I took to my heels and flew towards the fort at the top of my speed. [9]
Sorrento, ancient and romantic city, lies at the southwest end of this plain, built along the sheer sea precipice, and running back to the hills,--a city of such narrow streets, high walls, and luxuriant groves that it can be seen only from the heights adjacent. [4]
Heedless of the risk he ran, sheer admiration sent Stephen to the carriage door. [9]
The man then read the future for each of us; my fortune was sheer folly, whereof no single word ever came true. [10]
Many rivers are quite different in color at their source and at their mouth, and so it was often with her tears; she began to weep for sorrow, and then found it difficult to dry her eyes for sheer overflow of mirth. [10]
She gave a quick glance of sheer amazement at Janet, who did not seem to notice it; who was speaking objectively, apparently with no sense of the drama in her announcement. [9]
The huge brute puts up with a great deal from his small companion, but woe betide the dog if the tiger once pats him with his heavy, murderous paw--and he might, out of sheer forgetfulness! [10]
Far off the purple mist drew into mist, As thought melts into endless thought, and round The rim of the sheer world was heard a sound, Floating through palpitating amethyst. [11]
I had been possessed by similar resolutions before, though none so strong, and they had a way of sinking below the surface of my consciousness, only to rise again and again until by sheer pressure they achieved realization. [9]
If you will permit me to be as frank as you have been, it appears to me as sheer nonsense and folly, and if it were put into practice the world would be reduced at once to chaos and anarchy. [9]
He had influenced people by the sheer force of presence. [11]
Young Tom waited patiently for the exhibition to cease, which it did at length in a coughing fit of sheer exhaustion that left his father speechless, if not expressionless, pointing a lean and trembling finger in the direction of a valise on the floor. [9]
What had come over the poor, suffering youth whom he, Timon, had escorted to the Circus out of sheer compassion? [10]
The way is open, Paris beckons, France implores, Speak and we--" "Sire, it is madness, sheer madness! [5]
We passed through one a hundred feet long, which leads through a spur of the hill and opens out well up in the sheer wall of a precipice whose foot rests in the waves of the sea. [5]
I fell asleep once more from sheer weariness of joy. [9]
As they sped on, lurching, jumping, piercing a broken wall of wave and spray like a torpedo, shooting an almost sheer fall, she came to rely on a sense of intuition rather than memory, for night had transformed the waters. [11]
The torchlight falls on his face, and whereas my eyes descry him I cry aloud, and my soul has no thought of him but sheer pity and true love. [10]
She led him on from sheer wilfulness. [11]
Toward the center of this circle the sage-brush grew smaller and farther apart He was about to sheer off to the right, where thickets and jumbles of fallen rock would afford him cover, when he ran right upon a broad cattle trail. [13]
The eternal sameness of it all will so distress us we shall awake one morning, find them at our bedsides, give a kick, and die from sheer ennui. [11]
However, on one occasion, after having walked some sixteen miles, and sat up till nearly daylight, Eng dropped asleep, from sheer exhaustion, and then the question was asked and answered. [5]
Once when a noted bully came to Viking, and, out of sheer bravado and meanness, insulted Roscoe in the streets, two or three river-drivers came forward to avenge the insult. [11]
Yet they would not speak, that they might not mar our joy, albeit Uncle Pfinzing growled forth that our plan was sheer youthful folly, wilfulness, and the like. [10]
I often did not know what to do with myself from sheer mirth and vivacity, and it seemed as if I must burst into a thousand pieces like an over-loaded firelock, only instead of scattering far and wide, mount straight up to Heaven. [10]
San Paolo be my witness that did ye but find the stout Count Leonardo in his cups, sheer from the castle's topmost battlements would he hurl ye all! [5]
But at this moment he was stronger, and he drew her eyes up by the sheer force of his will. [11]
He was a man who had fought and conquered, and who fought on for the sheer love of it. [9]
Now you can't make anything out of that but just sheer luck. [5]
He did not make any such answer I submit to you now whether the new state of the case has not induced the Judge to sheer away from his original ground. [7]
Out of sheer love, when I went to the High School she kept my purse filled; then, as I grew older, our uncle did likewise, though for other reasons; and now that I have redenied Ann, to do his pleasure, I loathe myself. [10]
Arrived at the little thatched lookout house, we rested our elbows on the railing in front and looked abroad over the wide crater and down over the sheer precipice at the seething fires beneath us. [5]
Over a jutting ledge he drew himself up by sheer strength and the rubber-like grip of his lacerated fingers, and now he lay flat and breathless upon the ground. [11]
Out of sheer joy in those intoxicating pleasures, and for the sake of the manifold demands that came upon us in these over-busy days, we forgot those nearest and dearest to our hearts. [10]
This journey was indeed sheer flight from his own weakness and from the beautiful creature who could never be anything to him. [10]
In one place in the island of Hawaii, we saw a laced and ruffled cataract of limpid water leaping from a sheer precipice fifteen hundred feet high; but that sort of scenery finds its stanchest ally in the arithmetic rather than in spectacular effect. [5]
I was lost in sheer, bewildering happiness. [9]
For the moment I was silent with sheer surprise. [9]
In sheer desperation I took it--on credit, for sufficient reasons. [5]
I once thought I should have liked to have been a king amongst money changers, and own railroad and steamship lines, and dominate men by sheer power. [9]
It was sheer human glory in the deed of a fearless man. [13]
From sheer instinct, however, when he came to the coffee he threw a boot which caught Mahommed Seti in the middle of the chest, and said roughly: "French, not Turkish, idiot! [11]
She had asked herself whether the heart of one who experienced such joys, to whom such a fate was allotted, would not burst from sheer joy. [10]
She went into her own room and wept, and after many hours fell into a dreamless sleep of sheer exhaustion. [9]
He stared at her in sheer perplexity. [9]
He had gone headlong to the conquest, and by sheer force of temperament and weight of passion he had swept her off her feet. [11]
Why, indeed, should he put on airs with this man who had come to St. Louis unknown and unrecommended and poor, who by sheer industry had made himself of importance in the large business of Carvel &, Company? [9]
But at last he hit it--just by sheer inspiration, as it seemed to him --and all their troubles were gone in a moment; they would celebrate the Discovery of America. [5]
If ever I have seemed weary it is but to keep up a mannerly appearance; verily I could break forth ten times a day and shoot skywards like a rocket for sheer joy in life. [10]
Nothing else could have brought home to her like this the sheer tragedy of their plight. [9]
The unwholesome three had shared his moral lapse with wide-open eyes, and were in no sense victims of his; but, disregarding their responsibility, they had, from sheer jealousy, wrecked his past, and, to their own surprise, had wrecked themselves as well. [11]
How often she had quoted them for their sheer pagan beauty! [11]
Some hundreds, indeed, had passed the night there in prayer, or in sheer terror of the catastrophe which could not fail to ensue, and they were kneeling in groups, groaning, weeping, and cursing, or squatting in stolid resignation, weary, crushed and hopeless. [10]
He let her go soon enough then, but he stamped with his foot for sheer rage. [10]
He did it from sheer force of habit, for he knew he could get nothing. [5]
He never shrank from any of the drudgery of preparation, but I think his own part of the work was sheer pleasure to him. [6]
We should be free from the vexation of so many serving-men and wenches; and whereas of late she had been forced to turn Brigitta out of the house, had she not herself scarce escaped a fever from sheer worry of mind. [10]
The goddess of fortune sometimes blesses the persistent even before they begin to persist--perhaps from sheer weariness at the remembrance of previous importuning. [9]

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