He kept on at full speed, receiving a second broadside and part of a third, when he sheered off and returned the fire from his starboard battery.
They are naturally polled and have a tuft of long wool on top of the head which is not typically sheered (for aesthetic purposes).
Each, in turn, sheered off toward shore and beached herself.
Over the next 24 hours the disturbance persisted in a weekly sheered environment to the southeast of an upper level outflow centre.
The damage increased until her back was broken and the bow section sheered around perpendicular to the keel.
To that effect, it has sheered off some brigades from existing divisions as well as establishing new brigades alongside of them.
They may have sheered off afterwards, but they had at one time intended it, otherwise they would not have passed legislation empowering them to do so.
But he has again sheered away from the logic of his argument.