Only one came with drooping head and wings, and Sleeked itself to his caress, and the Prince, stooping down, whispered in her ear, "O, sister, why did you not peck out my heart?"
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
The coming of dainty viands with exquisite appointments gave nourishment to his ready appetite, and dulled for a time the thing within him that sometime must cry out to power or be Sleeked down into fat and unfeeling subjection.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter
He came stolidly forward tramping through the bog with his boots newly greased with what remained of the smooth candle "dowp" with which he had Sleeked his flaxen locks.
"The Lilac Sunbonnet"
S.R. Crockett