What is "sheerest"

Usage examples of "sheerest".

I dressed in the sheerest of gauzes and lay beneath a linen shade by the fountain in the atrium, Hylas panting by my side.

It may be that during the hours of night the sun itself relaxes and, as it were, sleeps, although this is of course sheerest speculation.

On the fifth day, in sheerest curiosity, Pryce Dacaerin took a troop and spent the day in the Forest.

The waking nightmare returned, holding him in a grip of the sheerest rage, stifling his mercy or compassion, throwing him into the pits of torment, emotional and physical torture.

Chapter 2 By the sheerest of coincidences, Longarm had been in Globe, Arizona Territory, when the wire had come into the depot that the train out of Phoenix had been robbed.

What was there about these surfaces that made the journey seem descendent and led him to believe he was breathing sheerest calculus?

Queen Jilseponie stared at Aydrian with a look of sheerest confusion, and Duke Kalas stared at him with a look of sheerest contempt.

He could kill off the delegation, inflict a few ugly but harmless injuries on himself, and blame their murders on Theron, claiming to have escaped death himself only by sheerest good fortune.

Only sheerest coincidence had allowed them to install the three Balls in reiver ships and gotten them to work without blowing up.

The elf sensed the presence of the demon dactyl as surely as the dactyl sensed him, felt the awfulness, the sheerest of evil, the coldest of deathly chill.

Her skirt framed her long well-turned legs, clad in the sheerest black nylon.