"You'll be feeling better presently; you must not expect your strength to come in a minute," said I, taking my chance of his understanding me, and speaking that he might not think me a ghost, for I doubt not I was as white as one; since, to be plain, the mere talking to a figure that I had got to consider as Sheerly dead as anybody in a graveyard was alarming enough, and then again there was the sound of my own voice, which I had not exerted in speech for ages, as it seemed to me.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Thessaly is inspiring, but his influence is Sheerly intellectual.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer
Latham had a glimpse of a cliff falling Sheerly away, with those deadly thorn-ferns reaching up from below.
"One Purple Hope!"
Henry Hasse