These islands, whose sheer sides rose straight from the water, held the last inhabitants of the lost continent.

Nothing grew on either of the steep, sheer sides.

Six or eight hundred feet up the sheer side of the tower, he suspected his own "weak heart" might show itself.

The wind could hardly be felt at all in here; the sheer sides of the cliff cut it off.

Chief Smith looked at the sheer side of the heavy metal opening ahead.

He looked up at the sheer sides of the shaft rising from the pool.

Huge balconies hung from the sheer sides of the canyon.

Then he was past the point of no return, free-falling down the sheer side.

The tinkers' encampment was at the base of the sheer side.

The canal lay at the bottom of a deep embankment between sheer sides.