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Never mind that I'm not particularly fast, nor that I tend to get tongue-tied and perspiry around the criminal element.
Fundamental Disconnect: Technicolor Dreams, Monochromatic Reality BikeSnobNYC 2009
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One could not imagine him doing anything unfashionable, perspiry, rough or rude; nor could one possibly imagine him doing anything ruthless, fine, terrible, strong or difficult.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
she commented on the word perspiry
"No—I love that handkerchief and I'm not going to get it all perspiry."
(Franny and Zooey)
July 18, 2008