But sweat is a word of connotation too vigorous (though honest withal) for us to use the term in the drawing room.

Without the slave trade, you cannot transport to the West Indies those throngs of men whose sweat and blood are the manure of your lands: on the other hand, you see the Genius of Independence hover over the New World, which will soon force you to seek friends and allies where you have hitherto reckoned only slaves.

Yet I do allus say as 'taters what a man grows wi' sweat of 'is own brow do beat all others in t' eatin'.

Thus of the pair sweat-perspiration, sweat is the plain-spoken, everyday member, perspiration the polite, even learned member.

The sweat that streamed from his face was brine upon his lips.

The sweat is a turbid, saltish fluid with a feeble but characteristic odor due to certain volatile fatty acids.

One might conceive that the emotion of the walkers produces a perspiration sufficient to prevent injury during the brief time of exposure; or that the sweat and oily secretions of the skin aided by dust picked up during the journey on the oven was a shield; or that the walkers were hypnotized by the tahua, or exalted by their daring experiment, so that they did not feel the heat.

The swabbing solution should always be used, if available, for it must be remembered that each puff when the bore "sweats" is an incipient rust pit.