See Also: SMELLS

1. Beads of perspiration, like seed pearls —Dorothea Straus
2. Beads of sweat gathered on his brow like tiny blisters —William Styron
3. Beads of sweat … popped on his forehead like tiny, glistening prairie dogs —Joan Hess
4. Beads of sweat, tiny as dewdrops —Leigh Allison Wilson
5. (My forehead) bubbled sweat like a burning plastic bag —Ira Wood
6. Cold sweat burst from his pores, trickling down his back like ice water —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
7. A drop of it [sweat] hung like a Christmas tree ornament from the tip of his nose —Jonathan Valin
8. Feel the sweat like needles at my hair-roots —Randall Jarrell
9. Fine beads of sweat glistened [on a man’s mustache] like little brilliants —Jessamyn West
10. Glistening with sweat like a circus seal —Ralph Ellison
11. Little pears of sweat had popped out like a corona around his shiny skull —Harvey Swados
12. Looked as if it would cost a thousand dollars to shake hands with him —Raymond Chandler
13. Small beads of sweat adorn his bald head like pearls on a bright dress —Erich Maria Remarque

    See Also: BALDNESS

14. Sweat clings like a crystal fixture to his receding brow —Mary Morris
15. Sweat collects in pores like ink does on fingerprints —Noel Behn
16. The sweat coming out on his face like somebody had squeezed it —Ernest Hemingway
17. Sweat crawling, like a procession of spiders and ants —George Garrett
18. Sweated like a coolie —Richard Wilbur
19. Sweated with self-consciousness and the effort to be suave, like a teenager dancing with a haughty girl —Derek Lambert
20. Sweating freely … like a squeezed sponge —Ben Ames Williams
21. Sweating like a swamp rat —Norman Mailer
22. Sweating like a very fat man in a Turkish bath —Kingsley Amis
23. Sweating like Judas —Samuel Beckett
24. Sweat like black plates under his arms —Ian Kennedy Martin
25. Sweat poured out … like a sprinkler —Andrew Kaplan
26. Sweat poured like rain —Ken Stabler, football quarterback and Berry Stainback, writer
27. Sweat ran down like water down a hill —American negro ballad “John Henry”

    In the original of this famous ballad ‘water’ was spelled ‘watah.’

28. The sweat ran over my back and down my arms and legs, branching, like an upside-down tree —Eudora Welty
29. Sweats like a mother of six, preparing lunch —Ira Wood
30. Sweat was pouring from his body like water coming out of a showerhead —Ann Petry
31. Sweat was running down behind his ears and under his collar like cold, restless worms —Margaret Millar
32. Under each arm of his striped shirt there was a dark semicircle like a stain of secret guilt —Margaret Millar