Let them sleep Unuttered; for the burden of my song Is voiced already in these labored leaves; And it is well, unfinished and unclosed Should stop this record, whose concluding words Of fairer hope, of sheerer miracle, Some greater hand than mine shall some day write And seal the chronicle-nay, never seal it!
"Mr. Faust"
Arthur Davison Ficke
On another side was, if we may so express it, a sheerer precipice rising upward.
"The Prairie Chief"
R.M. Ballantyne
It was a trifle sheerer than Miss Eliza had at first intended it to be, thanks to Miss Asenath's gentle persuasion; round in the neck and even a bit low, for with fingers that trembled in their excited daring Miss Letitia had cut it down farther than the line Miss Eliza had indicated as modest and becoming.
"The Heart of Arethusa"
Francis Barton Fox