sleek-barreled

Updated: July 24, 2026

You needn't use them in your church as altar-vases. They'd make a splendid trophy under Saint Michael's feet, a gleaming, sleek-barreled serpent of slaughter, just the sort of dragon for him to tread, and delight in treading. Good-bye. He was gone amongst the sailors, just as the steward called me up to the cold soup.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales