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I have tried walking nine miles a day, thus getting up free perspirations.

From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Daniel, Charles William

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 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

As the disease advances, the countenance becomes very pale, and the flesh wastes, and profuse night perspirations, great debility, swelling of the ankles, and nervousness ensue.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas

His lordship was in the garden, where Woodward found him in hobnailed shoes, digging himself into what he called his daily perspirations.

From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William