Below, the ground dropped nearly sheer to the green flood that roared among the ice.

Su wobbles again and I hear the clatter of rocks tumbling down the nearly sheer dropoff.

A battered wooden building with a tin roof perches between the grass runway and the nearly sheer rock face.

She is shrouded by a nearly sheer, tinted-tulle veil and is wearing satin blue underwear with a subtle, petaly ruffle.