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Translation of "Sleek" in French

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Examples of using "Sleek" in a sentence and their french translations:

Due rites to Venus and the gods I bore, / the work to favour, and a sleek, white steer / to Heaven's high King was slaughtering on the shore.

À la belle Vénus, aux dieux dont les auspices / sont aux nobles projets funestes ou propices, / j'offre mon humble hommage ; et le sacré couteau / immole à Jupiter un superbe taureau.

As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest.

Tel un affreux serpent, qui, nourri de poison, / sous la terre dormait dans la froide saison, / tout à coup reparaît, rayonnant de jeunesse, / s'étale avec orgueil, se roule, se redresse, / darde un triple aiguillon, et de son corps vermeil / allume les couleurs aux rayons du soleil.