Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleekened
Literary usage of Sleekened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Whistle-Binkie: Or, The Piper of the Party: Being a Collection of Songs for by John Donald Carrick, Alexander Rodger, David Robertson (1878)
"... To moisten my carcase, and keep it in sap, An' tho' what I've drunk might hae
sleekened the sun, I fin' I'm as dry as when first I begun ..."
2. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... summer-sleekened, In the bracken makes his bed,— On a day there comes once
more To the latched and lonely door, Dow-n time wood-road striding silent, ..."
3. The Casket (1828)
"said the outlaw ; "hast thou not tasted enough of my •vengeance already 7 I am
sleekened on thee. Get thee gone— but cross no more the path of one who has ..."
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