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"ref": "1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer",
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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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"Attractive, pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight; aesthetically pleasing."
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"word": "plăcut la vedere"
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"ref": "1887, L.J. Critchfield, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio: Volume 9",
"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",
"text": "30 acres land, situated high and sightly, commanding an unobstructed view of the surrounding country, […]",
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"ref": "1912, Supreme Court Appellate Division 2nd Dept Vol. 1547, page 697",
"text": "Q. Would you consider land having an unobstructed view of one mile as having a sightly view, that is what you mean by sightly? A. Yes, it might be sightly.",
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"ref": "1923, Los Angeles School Journal - Volume 7, Issues 1-20, page 5",
"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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"ref": "1999, David Kaufman, Shul with a Pool, page 270",
"text": "This is one of the most sightly locations in Boston for an imposing religious group having an unobstructed view from practically all directions.",
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"ref": "1917, Eben Doublas Pierce, History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin",
"text": "In 1916 the people voted to have a High school and to build a new building which is now, 1917, completed and is a beautiful modern one-story brick building, known as Lincoln High school, located in the northeastern part of the village on a sightly spot known as Lincoln Hill.",
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"ref": "1922, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopaedia - Volume 15, page 702",
"text": "There is also a soldiers' monument on a sightly situation on Grand Avenue.",
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},
{
"ref": "1924, Edward Church Smith, Philiip Mack Smith, Theodore Clarke Smith, A History of the Town of Middlefield, Massachusetts",
"text": "He lived in the William Church, Jr., house which still occupies a sightly spot on West Hill.",
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"word": "явен"
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"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
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"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
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"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"word": "ви́дный"
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"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"word": "заме́тный"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "brosájuščijsja v glazá",
"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"word": "броса́ющийся в глаза́"
}
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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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],
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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 […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Henry Hodgman Saylor, Country Life in America - Volume 13, page 361",
"text": "30 acres land, situated high and sightly, commanding an unobstructed view of the surrounding country, […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1912, Supreme Court Appellate Division 2nd Dept Vol. 1547, page 697",
"text": "Q. Would you consider land having an unobstructed view of one mile as having a sightly view, that is what you mean by sightly? A. Yes, it might be sightly.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1923, Los Angeles School Journal - Volume 7, Issues 1-20, page 5",
"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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, David Kaufman, Shul with a Pool, page 270",
"text": "This is one of the most sightly locations in Boston for an imposing religious group having an unobstructed view from practically all directions.",
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}
],
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"Offering a good view."
],
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"ref": "1917, Eben Doublas Pierce, History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1922, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopaedia - Volume 15, page 702",
"text": "There is also a soldiers' monument on a sightly situation on Grand Avenue.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1924, Edward Church Smith, Philiip Mack Smith, Theodore Clarke Smith, A History of the Town of Middlefield, Massachusetts",
"text": "He lived in the William Church, Jr., house which still occupies a sightly spot on West Hill.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"Open to sight; conspicuous."
],
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"roman": "krasiv",
"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
"word": "красив"
},
{
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "privlekatelen",
"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
"word": "привлекателен"
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"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
"word": "amharcach"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
"word": "dathúil"
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"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
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"word": "leggiadro"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
"word": "estetic"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
"word": "plăcut la vedere"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "privlekátelʹnyj",
"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
"word": "привлека́тельный"
},
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"roman": "prijátnyj",
"sense": "pleasing of appearance",
"word": "прия́тный"
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"roman": "javen",
"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"word": "явен"
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"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"word": "виден"
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"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"tags": [
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"word": "panoramico"
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"roman": "vídnyj",
"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"word": "ви́дный"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zamétnyj",
"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"word": "заме́тный"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brosájuščijsja v glazá",
"sense": "open to sight; conspicuous",
"word": "броса́ющийся в глаза́"
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"word": "sightly"
}
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