Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sheer
Sheer as chaos to the irrevocable past.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The rays run sheer as fire from the sun through the dusk of the pine-wood.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sheer as chaos to the irrevocable past.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The rays run sheer as fire from the sun through the dusk of the pine-wood.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne