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Sightlessly

Sightless \Sight"less\, a.

  1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind.

    Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar.
    --Pope.

  2. That can not be seen; invisible. [Obs.]

    The sightless couriers of the air.
    --Shak.

  3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. [R.]
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Sight"less*ly, adv.- Sight"less*ness, n.

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sightlessly

adv. In a sightless manner; blindly.

Usage examples of "sightlessly".

In her other, older, tank, the Cave Fish of Cueva Chica cruised sightlessly and the Glass-fish hid behind the plants.

The cultist sunk to the floor, staring sightlessly through his red leather hood.

Zumwalt stood at the window staring sightlessly at the snowscape below.

Amid the intricate colours of this courtyard, and the flashing glass windchimes which tinkled in the far archways, as she fumbled sightlessly but occasionally glanced at things with those odd, white eyes, it seemed yet more likely that she was blind, or at least terribly near-sighted.

The biker fell limply to one side, rolling onto his back, eyes staring sightlessly at the chem storm that flared overhead.

As lightning blinded Drew (but presumably his opponent as well), he sightlessly sought to deflect the blow that he knew would be aimed at his heart.

Torn by the wave from their graves in some long-forgotten burial ground, the amazingly well-preserved bodies of the dead stared sightlessly at the horrified sailors, who were certain they were being cursed by creatures of the devil.

A man lay sprawled against a dwarf oak, eyes bulging sightlessly and neck aivi37.

His book had fallen into his lap and his face was tinged with the dying gasp of the setting sun as he stared sightlessly at the angry sky.

A blackened face peered sightlessly in at us, empty eye sockets masked in trailing strands of exploded, frozen tissue.

The two of them are together in one of those odd open seats flush with the side of the bus and there is plenty of room beside Persia for a young black mother and her two-year-old, but the woman, hanging from a hand strap, gazes sightlessly beyond them and Persia nudges Iris into silence: "Just hush.

After five more minutes of lying on my back, staring sightlessly up at the cold-air trunking above my head, i suddenly had it.