SLEEKNESS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Sleekness

... old-fashioned seignorial stud stable, a young horse that they have hardly begun to break in to the traces.... Those who came across Sanin in later years, when life had knocked him about a good deal, and the sleekness and plumpness of youth had long vanished, saw in him a ...

— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev

... behest. He found his lordship alone, and was received with almost reverential courtesy. He thought that the bishop was looking wonderfully aged since he last saw him, but did not perhaps take into account the absence of clerical sleekness which was incidental to the bishop's private life in his private room, and perhaps in a certain measure to his recent great affliction. The dean had been in the habit of regarding Dr Proudie as a man almost young for his age,—having been in the habit of seeing him at his best, clothed ...

— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope