The perspiring runners.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I hate perspiring, which is apparently a necessary element of most forms of exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

By morning I was perspiring and my eyelids felt glued together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roomies] Reference

Zhu raged after the perspiring cadre rushed in a half hour late.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Power] Reference

His courage sinks -- dies -- he is white, perspiring, terrified, limp!.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

She had made effort to move the heavy oars, so that she was perspiring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"At a few minutes to seven!" repeated La Ramée, perspiring with alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Ivy was breathless and perspiring and her hat was blown all to one side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy-Alone] Reference

Brandon realized he was perspiring despite the chill of the desert night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quantum Jump] Reference

"No," smiled Gail, looking tenderly down into the flushed, perspiring face.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

"You just bet he did," Roy Anderson, red and perspiring, answered for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference

The Wildcat, perspiring copiously in his official robes of supremacy, got to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

Thad remarked, smiling, as he turned to look at the red face of the perspiring fat boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol] Reference

Maria gamboling along, having in tow at the end of a rope a well-spent, perspiring darky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

"No, worse luck," responded Will disgustedly, while the guard mopped his perspiring forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference

It may be overdressed and consequently hot, perspiring, and uncomfortable; change its position.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

He sucked the marrow out, then he let himself out into the hall, sated and perspiring slightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fiend] Reference

Personally, I'd rather be the panting and perspiring guy who slows down, looks ahead, and turns back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clay Farris Naff: Is Religion Good for Us? Former Dawkins Acolyte Now Says Yes!] Reference

He found the Lee personage perspiring darkly in the clouds of heat that billowed from a red-hot cookstove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

Peace returned home at noon, hot, perspiring, but radiant at the thought of no more lessons till the morrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

But Donaldsville was not dead -- perspiring certainly, but still possessing one lively evidence of animation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Young Rube had removed the saddle and was in the act of spreading a blanket over the animal's perspiring body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiddie the Scout] Reference

I lagged behind for him, and then toiled, perspiring and ankle deep in dust, ahead for him, but found him not.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

Near the entrance gates, through which perspiring men and women were hurrying, stood the rear cars of the train.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

Elliot taking his legs and on we went, pausing, exhausted, perspiring and breathless, now and again, for a rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

At the top Aunt Esmerelda slammed and bolted the door; then she sank into a chair and mopped her perspiring face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference

Gnats of a ferocious kind, hatched by thousands in the hangings of this hothouse, flew around our perspiring heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The Wildcat gave the dice a Turkish bath, a manicure, and a careful massaging between the perspiring palms of his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

Our anxiety as to whether the war was over was soon allayed, and we gaily marched, a perspiring company, to Maitland Camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

There was a faint patter of rapid steps through the corridor, and the night nurse, flushed and perspiring, flew into the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

True Pettis, and Patsy Hope, and -- and 'all other perspiring friends,' to quote Amoskeag Lanfell's letter that she wrote home from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

He will then sleep soundly, and toward morning will wake, I hope, in his right mind, but terribly exhausted and profusely perspiring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

And -- puffing and blowing; gesticulating and perspiring; soliloquizing and threatening, she retook possession of her home, sweet home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

He mopped his perspiring brow, while little wet lines showed in the creases of his sleeves and across the back of his thin summer shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference