Read full poem →And oh, man, here’s good-bye;
We'll sweat no more on scythe and rake,
My bloody hands and I.
Dictionary Entry
Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
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. sweatglands sweatgland sweatlodge sweatsweat cold
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Poetry examples for “sweat”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Here the truceless armies yet
Trample, rolled in blood and sweat;
They kill and kill and never die;
Read full poem →And oh, man, here's good-bye;
We'll sweat no more on scythe and rake,
My bloody hands and I."
Read full poem →Filth in trench from fall to spring,
Summers full of sweat and fighting
For the Kesar or the King.
Read full poem →I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.
Read full poem →Behind, my bay gelding gallops with me,
In a steaming sweat, it is fine to see
That coach, all claret, and gold, and blue,
Read full poem →His heart doth give the fashion: and, that he
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat,
(Such as thine are) and strike the second heat
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left UsbyBen Jonson
Read full poem →His art doth give the fashion; and that he
Who casts to write a living line must sweat
(Such as thine are) and strike the second heat
Read full poem →kiss her ears and rub her nose, and tie blankets on
her, and take her away to have the sweat sponged.
Read full poem →Which in men's general notice doth remain,--
The siege of Boulogne,[484] and the plaguy sweat,[485]
The going to Saint Quintin's[486] and New-Haven,[487] 10