unsight
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unsight
Example Sentences
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He relies on the cover of the wall to calibrate his kicks and unsight the keeper.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2016
I told him about Aunt 'Melie, and how I'd bought the place unsight and unseen.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
If you want to bid unsight unseen, name your figure.”
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen
It's up to you to see that we pass down this vale of tears, unsight an' unsung, as the poet says, or off comes your hind legs.
From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
Abe Lincoln laughed and said: "Mary would be like the man who traded horses unsight and unseem and drew a saw horse."
From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Adams, John Wolcott
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