See sightly on Wiktionary
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"text": "Many brave, sightly horses.",
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"ref": "1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer:",
"text": "Harry's sightly—yes, he's as sightly as the tallest pine of the mountains, and the Sarpent has named him accordingly; however, some fancy good looks, and some fancy good conduct, only.",
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"ref": "1988, Elizabeth Kata, A Patch of Blue:",
"text": "'Your face -ain't sightly,' said Ole Pa.",
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"text": "[…] yet the defendant wrongfully and unjustly intending to injure the plaintiff, and deprive him of his right to a free, safe, and unobstructed passage into and upon the said streets to and from his said lot, and to deprive him and his lot of the benefit and advantage of the sightly and elevated position of the lot and improvements […]",
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"ref": "1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Henry Hodgman Saylor, Country Life in America - Volume 13, page 361:",
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"ref": "1912, Supreme Court Appellate Division 2nd Dept Vol. 1547, page 697:",
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},
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"text": "You will not have to wait for your ship to come in to buy one of these high and sightly lots commanding an unobstructed view of miles of the most beautiful coast line in California.",
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