perspiration
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Your skin is slightly shining from perspiration, but you barely feel the heat because you get to enjoy the cold deliciousness of a frozen yogurt pop.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
"There are even some rather moving, rather touching details -- namely, its silk lining shows clear signs of perspiration," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
He danced with electric energy, sang with heartwarming ardency, and splashed perspiration around the Circle in the Square in “Just in Time,” portraying the 1960s chart-topper and sometime movie star Bobby Darin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
The polygraph exam uses a device strapped to a subject’s body to measure physiological responses like heart rate, blood pressure and perspiration as the person answers yes-or-no questions.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025
Even in the freezing December night, beads of perspiration rolled off Papa Will’s forehead.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
There is usually little fever, or at most only a slight heat and thirst towards evening, with occasional flushings of the face; and still more rarely, profuse perspirations in the latter part of the night.
From The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Let us go also to the weakest: They have strange perspirations!
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
She had considerable rheumatic muscular pains in various parts, and constant profuse perspirations day and night.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
On inquiry, it was found that, for some weeks, he had been expectorating blood—he had nocturnal perspirations, hectic flushes, and almost incessant cough.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various
Beside a severe cough and great emaciation, he was followed by hectic fever, and the most exhausting and discouraging perspirations.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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Charlotte's Web
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Physical Education - Introductory
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Physical Education - Middle School and High School
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