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The colorful, nonthreatening view somewhat offset the realization that there was only one way out of the sheer-sided stone amphitheater.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

Harry then understood their need for haste, for up ahead loomed a sheer-sided cliff, maybe fifteen hundred feet high.

The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

The softer shales in the Cape Supergroup and remnant Cretaceous sediments formed the low valleys and undulating plains adjacent to the sheer-sided mountains.

Montane fynbos and renosterveld 2008

The eastern area, around the Nine bent-Stream includes a large number of isolated and sheer-sided monoliths of red sandstone which have been formed by the natural riverine erosion following the natural faults and jointing in this rock.

Mount Wuyi, China 2008

The plateau is dissected by 100-200 m deep, sheer-sided gorges.

Purnululu National Park, Australia 2008

Where moments before there had been clear sky over the Inner City, a huge mass of black clouds loomed like sheer-sided mountains, forked lightning slashing down through a gray wall of rain that seemed as solid as the city walls.

Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

Gaidar had the terrifying image of sheer-sided, jagged rocks stabbing upward.

Dragons of a Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002

Gaidar had the terrifying image of sheer-sided, jagged rocks stabbing upward.

Dragons Of A Vanished Moon Weis, Margaret 2002

Dominating everything else was the sheer-sided plug of weathered volcanic rock known as Temmerefe's Sky-Reef, usually emerald-crowned, now reduced to a gloomy gray mass no different from the less spectacular peaks that surrounded it.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

Finding the fortress, which was set on a sheer-sided promontory in the midst of a deep river canyon, too inaccessible to assault directly, Feelleq-a-Qua and his staff proceeded to blockade the only access, a bridge built across the tops of smaller, intervening spires, and settled down to starve out the last resistance to the Horde's rule.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001