Wiping

Examples

• So now, Wegg,' said Mr Boffin, wiping his mouth with an air of much refreshment, 'you begin to know us as we are. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But, to return to our friends, whom we left wiping their eyes, and recovering themselves from too great and sudden a joy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• After which, Joe withdrew to the window, and stood with his back towards me, wiping his eyes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I thought he never would have done wiping his feet, and that I must have gone out to lift him off the mat, but at last he came in. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Well, Mas'r Jaggers, said Mike, wiping his nose on his fur cap this time; in a general way, anythink. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, wiping his forehead, 'I'm afeerd that vun o' these days I shall laugh myself into a appleplexy, my boy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Yes, said Madame de Thoux, lifting her head, proudly, and wiping her tears, Mr. Shelby, George Harris is my brother! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It ain't filial conduct, Samivel,' said Mr. Weller, wiping his forehead; 'wery far from it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He wiped his mouth, wiping his upturned gray mustache carefully. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They've come to have a little serious talk with you, Samivel,' said Mr. Weller, wiping his eyes. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I'm sick of the sight of this, and there's no reason you should all die of a surfeit because I've been a fool, cried Amy, wiping her eyes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They had been treating their guard, I suppose, for they had a gaoler with them, and all three came out wiping their mouths on their hands. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Slackbridge likewise sat down, wiping his hot forehead—always from left to right, and never the reverse way. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There, I'll pledge my honor to you, Tom, you don't see me so again, he said; and Tom went off, wiping his eyes, with great satisfaction. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She was wiping the dead face carefully, and murmuring, almost whimpering, very softly: 'Poor Mr Crich! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I was here, said Topsy, wiping the tears from her eyes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Well,' said Wardle, walking up to the side of the barrow, and wiping the streams of perspiration from his jolly red face; 'smoking day, isn't it? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Robert Jordan, wiping out the stew bowl with bread, explained how the income tax and inheritance tax worked. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This is removed by placing in water and wiping gently with absorbent cotton. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was not in the figures at all,' said Sissy, wiping her eyes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I don't know who it can be,' said Mrs. Sparsit, wiping her mouth and arranging her mittens. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• When he turned, he had his handkerchief in his hand, and he had been wiping his eyes with it, and he looked tired and ill. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He was wery good to me, says the boy, wiping his eyes with his wretched sleeve. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At last,' he muttered, wiping his dry and fevered mouth. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Peace, my friends, says Chadband, rising and wiping the oily exudations from his reverend visage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Professor Porter removed his spectacles nervously, and breathed upon them, but replaced them on his nose without wiping. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I mean to try hard, she answers, wiping her eyes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Presently Tarzan came up with the white man, who, almost fagged, was leaning against a tree wiping the perspiration from his forehead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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