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The other two were sponging his chest with water––pumping fresh air into his lungs; but Old Jerry’s eyes clung to the calamity written upon Hogarty’s gray features.

From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto

Half a dozen men were sponging off him in his rooms when he brought home the books and ranged them unsuspiciously round his walls.

From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser

With nods and glances, the health of Serpolette was drunk, and then fearing to look as if she were sponging, Kate insisted on likewise standing treat.

From A Mummer's Wife by Moore, George (George Augustus)

You'd be afraid lest she should think you were sponging on her.

From A Great Man A Frolic by Bennett, Arnold

The shepherds jeered; those who had backed the victor were sponging his wounds beside a runlet of water which was close at hand; those who had lost were flinging stones on the vanquished.

From The Waters of Edera by Ouida