427 collocations for wipe

he cried, wiping his eyes.

She wiped tears from her eyes with the end of her apron.

Then he stopped a moment, and wiped his face.

" Nothing more was said for a full half-hour, till the Colonel, taking off his fur hat, and wiping his beaded forehead on the back of his hand, remarked: "Think of the Siege of Paris.

"My boymy little boy!" A pair of dock-hands, wiping their hands on cotton-waste, came after a while to the door of the pier-house to observe and comment.

He laid down his cane, took off his high hat and wiped his brow.

As I sat on the verandah of the Hotel the other morning, gazing on the broad expanse of Ocean and wiping the perspiration which trickled from my lofty brow, (the thermometer marked 90 degrees,) I could not help recalling the beautifully appropriate lines of the celebrated bard: "When the sun's perpendicular rays Begin to illumine the Sea, The fishies exclaim in amaze 'Confound it!

You walked yourself, I suppose?" "Ran," said Beaumaroy, and, with the first sign of a smile, wiped the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand.

And all the time Rogers was watching him furtively, wiping his mouth mechanically with a trembling hand.

" At Pensford the rabble made a bull savage, and then tried to make it attack his congregation; at Whitechapel they drove cows among the listeners and threw stones, one of which hit Wesley between the eyes; but after he had wiped away the blood he went on with his address, telling the people that "God hath not given us the spirit of fear".

Don't tell him to wipe his feet.

" "He might want to wipe away the dust for once in his life; it's about time," Kurt's mother replied.

Nothing but blood will wipe away the dreadful stain on your sister's character.

Full of compassion for the suffering, the tender heart of the Poet melts at the sight, and in mellifluous tones he asks, "What is the matter, BUB?" Sobbingly digging his fists into his eyes, and carefully wiping his classic nose on the sleeve of his jacket, the heart-broken mourner murmurs: "I've lost my sheep, And don't know where to find them," and bursts forth into a prolonged howl.

," said Miss Blake, preparing to comply with this request by wiping her lips with her apron, "you see I a'n't one of the kissin

The duke replied, "True it is that we are men (as you say) who have seen better days, and though we have now our habitation in this wild forest, we have lived in towns and cities, and have with holy bell been knolled to church, have sate at good men's feasts, and from our eyes have wiped the drops which sacred pity has engendered: therefore sit you down, and take of our refreshment as much as will minister to your wants.

If I was under the tent, wiping glasses, he stood beside me; if the photographer wished to make a picture of the party, this man came to the front; and when I asked the servant to send off the half-vagrant boys and girls who stood gazing at us, this man came up and said to me in a confidential tone, 'They do not understand the sacredness of the occasion, and the fineness of the conditions.'

Honest, mama, toto think how you're letting a crowd of old, flabby women that aren't fit even to wipe your shoes make a regular servant out of you!

I'd be crow's food by this time if it hadn't been for you, Pete!" "That only wipes out one score.

"I wonder was the Premier there," one man asked, wiping the traces of merriment from his glasses, "I've laughed till I'm sorebut

"I come to help wipe dishes.

The best gondolier in Venice has been beaten by an old fisherman, and nothing but blood could wipe out the disgrace!"

Well wash the bream, but do not remove the scales, and wipe away all moisture with a nice dry cloth.

She went on wiping up the water from the floor, with rebellion, slumbering, hidden rebellion in every movement, and the look in her eyes when she turned to the window, was a strange blending of rage and fear.

sweep away infancy and youth, manhood and old age; wipe out old memories, and pass the sponge over cherished recollections.

427 collocations for  wipe