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The cliff has a sheer drop to the water, which is here deep, so that large vessels can pass close inshore.
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As Winton's gallery is a sheer drop of thirty feet from the ground, you can imagine it looks strange.
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It was a dreadful place to give battle, on that straight shelf of rock overhanging a sheer drop of perhaps a thousand feet.
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The veteran gazed down at the sloping expanse of stone that curved to the sheer drop of the precipice.
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Lightning played along the black ridges above them, and below was a sheer drop to a river which was only a silver thread.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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