And further, a most perspiring bare chest revealed the heinous fact that I had omitted to put on the thick flannel shirt which has to be worn under the coarse white cotton one.
On we trudged with dry, parched mouths and lips sticking together as though gummed, the dust adhering to our perspiring faces and filling our nostrils and ears.
Our anxiety as to whether the war was over was soon allayed, and we gaily marched, a perspiring company, to Maitland Camp.
I lagged behind for him, and then toiled, perspiring and ankle deep in dust, ahead for him, but found him not.
No," smiled Gail, looking tenderly down into the flushed, perspiring face.
Then for a quarter of an hour the door swayed to and fro, and all the workgirls scrambled in, perspiring with tumbled hair.
Lorilleux, in front of his worktable, was perspiring with the warmth as he soldered the links of a chain together.
Mr. Stokes and Mr. Bentick, perspiring and abject, and looking for all the world like two criminals, dropped dejectedly into the places assigned them.
The brass-band, which Antioch loved with a love that stifled criticism, perspiring and in dire haste, was turning the street corner half a block distant.
Great patience was required to land it safely on the trail, but land it they did after working and perspiring over it for nearly half an hour.
The boys wereperspiring and red of face, but happy.
A stiff pull for miles with perspiring horses; but once up on the braeland above this wild and wonderful valley the view was indescribably fine.
I've seen that theer bald head of his a perspiring in the sun, Mas'r Davy, till I a'most thowt it would have melted away.
He lay staring at the flecks of sunlight on the pine-needle-strewn ground, wondering how it happened that he had not wakened in damp discomfort from hot and perspiring slumbers.
The vehicle was full of cheerful folk; they sat there laughing at a couple of good-natured citizens who were perspiringand hurling silly witticisms at one another.
Now and again he was roused for a moment out of his condition by the appearance at the window of a black, perspiring face, that swore at him because he was not driving evenly.
In there blood burnt hot, and faces were like balls of fire that made red circles in the blue mist of perspiring heat and dust.
They were positively perspiring with parliamentarianism, and would soon be doing nothing but getting mandates.
He was perspiring freely, and did not look entirely satisfied.
Don joined him and followed the panting, perspiring players down the field.
When the hour's practice was over he was just about as thankful as any of the puffing, perspiring youths around him.
The particular angle at which the double-handed saw, held by two weary and perspiring men, had cut it off a year before just enabled it to fit and wedge itself with irresistible exactitude.
He sat down beside her, very cold, yetperspiring with heat.
The perspiring son of the Essex bargeman and the woman of Normandy bent his head several times in assent, but uttered no word in reply.
These furnaces emit a heat more intense than the most perspiring imagination can conceive, or the stanchest thermometer indicate.
He was heartily applauding the efforts of a perspiring gentleman who was dancing a jig.
Marshal Dan Smith, perspiring and painfully conscious of a hard shirt and a forest-fire necktie, was her next partner.
And twenty times running I kept it up, soaking my feet afresh each time, and perspiring anew as I worked the handle of the pump.
As for him, he was perspiring and wiping his forehead.
As my eye came back to the busy scene beneath the chestnut tree it seemed to me, how vividly I cannot describe--that beside or behind the energetic and perspiring Mr. Harpworth there stood Another Auctioneer.
Mr. Narkom pointed excitedly in Ross's direction, his fat face red with excitement, his forehead perspiring with the heat of his excitement.
They dragged their panting, perspiring victim into the edge of the woods, tied him to a sapling and bared his back.
The victim mopped his perspiring brow and stammered: "Yassam--yassam.
He had not freed his hand from the brown leather satchel to remove his hat when he had mopped his perspiring forehead, with a big cambric handkerchief scented with the tres persistent perfume that always clung about his clothes.
No wonder he wasperspiring so heavily as he began to recover!
At any rate, Pincher was generally perspiring freely by the time it was over.
And Eustace paused as he drew out his handkerchief and mopped his perspiring face.
Warm night," observed Tom Reade, as he paused not far from the street corner to wipe his perspiring face and neck with his handkerchief.
But when he saw the car turn a corner and go off on the Tottenville road, young Prescott slowed down, panting and wiping his perspiring face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perspiring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clammy; sticky; sudorific; sweating; sweaty; wilted
