perspiration
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"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
When she hits, she’s hilarious: An extended bit about leaving a puddle of her perspiration on a piece of gym equipment involves James Cameron developing a submersible to get to the bottom of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
As Cecilia turned toward her mother Robbie caught a whiff of underarm perspiration, which put him in mind of freshly cut grass.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
The heat which they maintain about the body is inconvenient and dangerous, predisposing to flooding and exhausting perspirations.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
Thunderbolt stones were said to sweat during a storm, which was not thought a more wonderful "fact" than the perspirations streaming out of glass windows "in winter when the stove is hot."
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
The plant, without doubt, is decidedly anti-epileptic, its remedial effects being straightway followed by profuse and fetid perspirations.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Dea, when fatigued, suffered from perspirations and drowsiness, and took a daily siesta, as we have already seen.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
I had been bored with it some weeks—with nocturnal burnings and morning perspirations; but I am quite well again, which I attribute to having had neither medicine nor doctor thereof.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
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