Apart from these two places, the cliffs rise sheer out of deep water.

Its walls rose sheer and straight for an interminable distance.

Beyond it the shore rose sheer into a grey cliff, and there was no further passage for those on foot.

The moist rock rose sheer to our left, its summit lost in the.

That land could rise sheer and sudden out of deep water.

The rocks rose sheer out of the sea on either side there and could not be climbed.

Rising straight and sheer from the water, a thousand feet into the night.

There its cliffs rise sheer and vertical almost a thousand feet above a narrow, sandy bottom.

A cliff rose sheer above the area, and the trail apparently had reached its end.

The opposite slope of that valley seemed to rise almost sheer.