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Definition of Sightliest
1. sightly [adj] - See also: sightly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sightliest
Literary usage of Sightliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on English by Brander Matthews (1921)
""Do you want the nighest way or the sightliest? ... They smiled back at him and
said that they would rather go home by the sightliest way. ..."
2. Essays on English by Brander Matthews (1921)
""Do you want the nighest way or the sightliest? ... They smiled back at him and
said that they would rather go home by the sightliest way. ..."
3. Samuel Adams by James Kendall Hosmer (1885)
"The estates of the Tories were among the fairest; their stately mansions stood
on the sightliest hill - brows ; the richest and best tilled meadows were ..."
4. The Century by Bim Sherman (1885)
"Yes, sir, it's about the sightliest view I know of. I always did like the water
side of Beacon. Long before I owned property here, or ever expected to, ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... which called it alwayes after the Emperours name Constantinople, the which
his Successors daily adorned, and amongst the sightliest Ornaments, ..."
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