He groaned as he came over her, his hips pumping as sweat coated their flesh, the heat building, rising to the point that she was fighting it, fighting him, fighting the screeching, clawing animal of lust tearing at her womb, tightening it with a ferocity that terrified her.

Mostly, though, the sweat spread out and coated his skin and evaporated in the rushing wind of his own passage.

"The hand of God preserved the life of Abner that night," he said, as sweat coated his forehead like dew drops.

Dust and sweat coated his face.

Clammy sweat coated his palms and he had to struggle against the impulse to wipe them on his jeans.

Philoso- phizing after the fact was all very well, but the cold sweat still coated her and her joke had almost been no joke at all, but literally true.

He began to pant from the effort, and sweat coated his limbs, which made it difficult for him to keep hold of his feet or his hands when contorted into a position that felt as if it were going to tear the muscles from his bones.

Artaq's flanks were heaving, his nostrils flaring, sweat and lather coated his sleek black body He stretched out further, racing through the darkness, the two hunched forms on his back holding on desperately.