sweat-streaming

Updated: May 11, 2025

In one place among the carelessly heaped lumber of the old times he found a rust-eaten spade, and with this he made a fitful attack on the razed and grass-grown garden though he had nothing to plant or sow. He returned to Elizabeth with a sweat-streaming face, after half an hour of such work. "There were giants in those days," he said, not understanding what wont and training will do.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Tales of Space and Time