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- adverb While
perspiring ; withperspiration orsweat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Attired in the serviceable khaki of a convict laborer, a heavy-set man worked perspiringly diligent with cloth and metal polish on the brass rail that enclosed the high tension switching mechanisms of globe 819.
"Power" by Harl Vincent, part 8 Johnny Pez 2010
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Eliza stroked her hair away from her forehead, then wiped the sweat of it against her own cheek; after all, his might have touched Bea's perspiringly.
Imposture 2007
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Eliza stroked her hair away from her forehead, then wiped the sweat of it against her own cheek; after all, his might have touched Bea's perspiringly.
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While the rain thunders on the roof at the rate of an inch per hour, inside the house it may be perspiringly hot.
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This chasm, which was short and steep, they traversed perspiringly.
The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels
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Even the natives themselves, guiding the heavy, unwieldy, treacherous cable round and round in the water-soaked tank, that only one turn should be lifted at a time, grinned affably and perspiringly at those of us peering over the railing at them -- grimy tar-stained figures that they were, the sunlight bringing their faces out in strong relief against the dark backgound.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel
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People pushed perspiringly for the shady side of the street, puffed and panted under pillar and portico.
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There was a king, to be sure, but nobody could imagine the perspiringly earnest King Humphrey the Eighth as a tyrant.
Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935
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Miss Moynihan, on her very first day, discovered, perspiringly, that you must never mention the _Gazette's_ rival, the _Internal Combustion News_.
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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He wiped his shoes, caked with red mud, upon the seat-cushions, and apologized perspiringly.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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