The old servant was daunted by seeing Sylvia in a strange place, and stood, Sleeking his hair down, and furtively looking about him, instead of seating himself on the chair Sylvia had so eagerly brought forward for him.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The subject had been taken before by Salvator, whose genius found all its elements in the wild rocks, gnarled, fantastic trees, and gushing waterfalls of the landscape; in the huge ugliness of Polyphemus the lover; in the grace and suavity and unconscious abandonment of the nymph, Sleeking her tresses dripping from the bath.
"Lucretia, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
So saying the lady tripped lightly away, and began coquettishly Sleeking her locks in the smooth mirror of a marble basin, whose waters trickled over the margin upon the grass below, ever and anon glancing archly towards the stranger, and sufficiently at hand to overhear all that was said.
"Rienzi"
Edward Bulwer Lytton