You see the calculation behind the anarchic theatricality of the New Left and also the sheer dread.

But that morning I'd heard the sound of sheer dread: the dry, airy gurgle that issues from the tap when one's well is kaput.

When she didn't move out of sheer dread, Jeb said, "I can shoot them off, and still keep you alive enough to enjoy you."

She had a feeling of sheer dread then, a feeling she could not understand.

I pushed the library door wide and stood there staring at it and I couldn't help shaking with sheer dread.

He knew that some of his kinfolk would have been paralysed by fear, by the sheer dread of walking amid these titanic ruins.

Her face, gone stern from its previous smile, slipped into an expression of sheer dread.

For sheer gut-sinking dread, though, I always think it must be worse to be the minister stewarding serious cuts, standing in a conference full of experts.

These sessions left him violently ill, not just after the treatment but also sometimes before it - from sheer dread.

But, again, this invitation to philosophical debate was ambushed somewhere in his head by sheer dread of the big beard in the sky.