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Sweat

noun

1.

Salty fluid secreted by sweat glands. Synonyms: perspiration, sudor.

2.

Agitation resulting from active worry. Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, swither. "He's in a sweat about exams"

3.

Condensation of moisture on a cold surface.

4.

Use of physical or mental energy; hard work. Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail. "They managed only with great exertion"

verb

(past & past part. sweat or sweated, obs. swat; pres. part. sweating)

1.

Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin. Synonyms: perspire, sudate.

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"Sweat" Quotes from Famous Books

... dragging pain as if somebody were pulling her about brutally by her dark hair with bronze glints, made her put her hands up to her temples. They would meet. They would meet. And she knew where, too. At the window. The sweat of torture fell in drops on her cheeks, while the moonlight in the offing closed as if with a colossal bar of silver the entrance of the Placid Gulf—the sombre cavern of clouds and stillness in ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... the last extremity, they have enlisted in Social Service. You should see them going about opening windows, and forcing people to poke their heads out into the night air, and making landlords miserable by their calculations about cubic feet, and investigating sweat-shops and analyzing foodstuffs. It's their way of bringing ...

— By the Christmas Fire • Samuel McChord Crothers

... artisan. No joy had lighted up his laborious days. He died at fifty; all the years of his life he had panted under the thumb of masters whose rapacity exacted from him the price of the water, of the salt, of the very air he breathed; taxed the sweat of his brow and claimed the blood of his sons. No protection, no guidance! What had society to say to him? Be submissive and be honest. If you rebel I shall kill you. If you steal I shall imprison you. But if you suffer I have nothing for ...

— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad

... part of the narrative, before which most of the adventures of the "Boys' Own Book" pale into insignificance. There are times when the recollection of this adventure causes Master Charles to break out in a cold sweat, and he has several times since its occurrence been awakened by lamentations and outcries in the night season by merely dreaming of it. On the corner of the street lay several large empty sugar hogsheads. A few young gentlemen disported themselves therein, armed with sticks, with which ...

— Urban Sketches • Bret Harte

... the women shake, The strong men stare about; They sleep when they should be awake, They wake ere night is out. For they have lost their heritage— No sweat is on their brow: Come, babe, and bring them work and wage; Be born, and save ...

— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald

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