I am not haughty or perverse," said Caroline, wiping the hot tears from her eyes, "but weary and ill.
She hesitated a minute, then set down her basket, and crept close to his side, wiping the tears with one hand, while he clasped the other.
Messre came upon me again, wiping his fingers on a soiled towel, and tugging each one separately after the manner of childhood.
There--wiping her boots on Eriksens' mat, the very thing she'd been strictly forbidden.
I was only wiping my nose, and you thought I was crying--ha ha, I did you there!
Loud voices could be heard from the terrace of Vang's hotel; three gentlemen had just come out, and were sniffing and wiping their foreheads with handkerchiefs.
It was evening before he found himself back, wiping his shoes carefully and gently in the passage.
The old gentleman who had asked her to sing had taken off his spectacles and was openly wiping his eyes.
Perhaps I'm not yet a cumberer of the ground," murmured the old man, wiping a sudden moisture from his eyes.
And his visitor slipped the leather band from her forehead, set her basket on the granite wall, and went into the kitchen-like room, wiping her brow as she seated herself in the old rush-bottomed chair.
Her husband being as it were inchanted with these words and compelled by violence of her often embracing, wiping away her teares with his haire, did yeeld unto his wife.
Sometimes the work is outlined roughly by lightly wiping off some of the color with a folded rag and describing the general direction of the grain to be followed by the fitch.
Hungarian ash varies from very bold to very fine grains, and the finer varieties may successfully be done in oil color, using the fitch tool to put in the grains and wiping out simply the lights and the shadows with the rag.
It may be mottled by wiping off the color with a rag, or by applying a little color with the sash tool and lifting the color with the flat brush.
The hearts can also be put in by using the fitch tool, or by mottling or wiping off the color slightly with the rag and then using the fitch tool as directed, the edges of the color being slightly lifted with the dry flat brush.
But he made her no answer, for he was too busy clasping her poor trembling fingers and wiping away with his lips the hot tears falling from Nele's eyes like the big drops of a thunder shower.
McLaggan admiringly, wiping his eyes on his sleeve.
The hum shrilled to a monstrous and rending screech, and the spinning column swept across the river, wiping it up to the bottom of the channel as it passed.
A forest fire, some ten days back, had swept past that way, cutting a mile-wide swath through the woods and clean wiping out Jabe Smith's little homestead.
I stepped aside a moment to let the construction train with its load of rails roll past, and stood leaning on the axe wiping the perspiration out of my eyes until Harry's shout rang out warningly.
The latter, like the devastating hail, performs its work erratically, wiping out one man's grain and sparing his neighbors'.
The miller had the appearance of a huge sack of flour as he sat there in his shirtsleeves, holding a full pot of beer in his hand andwiping the perspiration off his forehead.
He has paid us out for our kindness,' whimpered Slimakowa, wiping her eyes.
She sat up, wiping her eyes, and turned to him a face sodden with grief.
It's wiping out the path you made when you broke through.
My poor husband was a carpenter," added the lady, wiping a tear from her eye.
You looked into my face, and seemed so interested that I was tempted to tell more than I intended," said he, wiping away with his coat sleeve the tears that stained his sunken cheeks.
Wiping her hands on her apron, Phronie took the oil lamp, with its battered tin reflector, from the wall.
Wiping the blood from forehead and cheeks he hurried out into the yard.
Above all, book-learning is swiftly wiping out the old suspicions and superstitions about the medical profession.
When the Princess saw this derring-do of her defender, she rejoiced greatly and fell to wiping with her kerchief the sweat from his brow; and the youth said to her, "Arise and do thou fare to thy family.
The arch-priest, a fat man with a shining red face, walked swaying from side to side, much out of breath and wiping his brow.
These she ate, greedily licking her lips; and finished by wiping her hands on the purple silk of her robes, which had been granted for the procession by the Imperial Treasury.
His helmet scorched his head; he tore it off and flung it to earth, wiping away great drops of sweat.
On such occasions he would have preferred to undergo torture rather than betray his mortal nature by sneezing, coughing, or wiping off the sweat which stood in beads on his forehead.
He was as particular as an old maid, Aurora told him, before he had been caught absentmindedly wiping paint off on his hair.
She had gone where the piano stood in a bower of palm and bamboo, with Signor Ceccherelli seated before it, busy wiping the sweat of his brow.
Then Colonel Newcome walked away into the next room for a minute or two, and came back wiping his moustache with his handkerchief, and still holding the key in the other hand.
The young woman wanted to burn the blue slipper in the fireplace; but Léon picked it up and, after wiping it by the bedside, he kissed it and put it in his pocket.
Scattered about in disorder stood about two hundred men in French uniform: some were loading their pieces, others wiping their bayonets.
But he reached the stream, where he stooped and bathed his face and hands, wiping them on the handkerchief he carried, and still heard and saw nothing to cause misgiving.
I put the little box in his pouch myself a year ago," said the nurse who was easily moved, wiping her eyes.
You must give yourself some rest now," said Mrs. Williams, wiping her eyes with the corner of her apron.
Beulah seized a fan, and did as requested, now and then wiping away the moisture which gathered around the lips and forehead.
Beulah leaned out of the window, and, wiping away the heavy drops that stood on her brow, looked down the almost deserted street.
I shall leave here very soon," said Mrs. Williams, wiping her eyes.
I have some work to do first," said she, drawing a long breath and wiping the dust from her desk.
I dare say they were quite equal to a hair shirt to do penance in; and wiping on a new home-made linen towel suggested wiping on a brier bush.
So there we stood, John Burroughs and his humble reader, washing and wiping dishes, and weighing Amiel and Schopenhauer in the balance at the same time; and a very novel and amusing experience it was.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wiping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
