perspiring

Producing perspiration; sweating.

Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.

The act of producing perspiration.

Yet for all that they did not live an idle life: they found the means of making their retirement more useful to mankind than the perspirings and runnings to and fro of other men: wherefore these persons are thought to have done great things, in spite of their having done nothing of a public character.