'I had been to Versailles and had sat perspiring in the crowded court; then I had spent the night travelling.

Denslow perspired with mortification.

In the square outside the Consulate a squad from the flagship were setting up a temporary band-stand, where the ship's band was to play when evening fell, while Hutcheson, perspiring in his uniform, drove with the Admiral to make the calls of courtesy upon the authorities which international etiquette demanded.

He was perspiring at every pore, and was mopping his forehead with a huge silk handkerchief.

One by one the canoes began to pass him, their occupants casting amusing glances at him as he perspired over his paddle.

In both these cases, a close examination with a powerful microscope, will discover the sap perspiring from the divided portion of the stem, and the colouring matter rising through real tubes to the top of the twig: these are the sap or conducting vessels of the plant.

The ring around the cockpit is crowded with men, perspiring at every pore, while their countenances bear the imprint of the ugliest passions.

I remember another day, when I did a great climb above Bezzecca to carry out a front line reconnaissance, and arrived limp and perspiring to lunch at the Headquarters of an Italian Artillery Group, high, high up, looking out upon a glorious and astounding view.

When Landis came again, he was perspiring from the trial of fire through which he had just passed.

The auxiliary bishop said mass, and his attendant deacons were perspiring under the traditional mantles and chasubles covered with beautiful raised embroidery in high and splendid relief, as stiff and uncomfortable as ancient armour.

You die for your country at a shilling a day, while at home Snubbin, K.C., is perspiring for his client at £100 a day.

The reason is, that there are too many causes of impurity in operation while we sleep, without our wearing the clothes in which we have been perspiring during the day-timeand which must be already more or less filled with the effluvia of our bodies.

At present one gets terrible hot and perspiring on the march, and quickly cold when halted, but the sun makes up for all evils.

He then ordered the Sultan, who was his Patient, to exercise himself early in the Morning with these rightly prepared Instruments, till such time as he should Sweat: When, as the Story goes, the Vertue of the Medicaments perspiring through the Wood, had so good an Influence on the Sultan's Constitution, that they cured him of an Indisposition which all the Compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove.

There is a coolness here that all those would envy who are generally perspiring about this time in the cafes of the Zocodover.