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At any rate, a callow Hurst was more of a wow than the perspiring carthorse the formation yoked him to, perspiringly diligent Roger Hunt.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2013

Composer Michael Tippett wrote a special Fanfare for the occasion, which was considered most impressive when perspiringly played in the church's gallery by -the Northamptonshire Regimental Band.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was pinched perspiringly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

People pushed perspiringly for the shady side of the street, puffed and panted under pillar and portico.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

"It beats the devil," again remarked the Sergeant as he and Howard, perspiringly hot, left the house about 9 o'clock.

From The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories by Bump, Charles Weathers