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Definition of Sightlier
1. sightly [adj] - See also: sightly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sightlier
Literary usage of Sightlier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Conn by Heman Rowlee Timlow (1875)
"More in accordance with usage, and therefore more probable is the sightlier spot.".
The "traces of earlier foundations" near these trees, were there about ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"He was a braw and brave lad, a sightlier was not to be met with in a' Carrick,
Coil, or Cunningham ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1846)
"It is larger and sightlier than that just spoken of, though instead of 908 hymns
it contains but 658. It is preceded by very considerable selections from ..."
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