It seemed to have been carved out of the sheer stone of the mountain.

The precipice was at least five hundred feet high, mostly sheer stone.

He stared up at the sheer stone with a dreamy and mystical expression.

Its walls were sheer stone, scores of feet high.

Not while she was clinging to sheer stone, three stories above the pavement, with another to go.

Her hands fluttered along the sheer stone, and suddenly they found a depression.

They came to a lead-lined door set in the sheer stone.

It rose steeply from the ground with no apology, the stone too sheer to scale without special equipment.

From the spring, the crevasse wound back into sheer stone, narrowing as it went.

The northern wall of the ravine became sheer grey stone, then relaxed its slope a little.