The bent grew browner, the trees more ragged, and the torrent below more turgid and boisterous.
The venom of a woman scorned--a mingling of turgid emotions.
The brigand ship and all its vicinity were enveloped in dark mist now--a turgid sable curtain, made more dense by the dissipating heavy fumes of our exploding bombs which settled low over the ship and the rocks nearby.
And in that instant, before the turgid black curtain closed over them, I saw two brigands come rushing.
For all her amazement--what turgid emotions sweeping her I can only guess--she never took her eyes from Snap and me.
My thoughts ran like a turgid stream as I stood tensely watching.
I felt like an actor awaiting his cue in the wings of some turgid drama the plot of which he did not know.
I held her as though all of life's turgid dangers were powerless to touch us.
Behind them, she took pains to show him, the churned water lay all yellow andturgid and draped in fog.
He wondered if they, too, had explored some portion of that secret network of excitement and daring which ran like turgid sewers under the asphalted tranquillity of the open city.
It was only now and then, Durkin told himself, through some sudden little explosion in the press, or through the steaming manhole of the city magistrate’s court, that these turgid and often undreamed of sewers showed themselves.
A Galician river in flood is a striking spectacle, especially a stream like the Miño, which even in ordinary seasons is a swift and turgid water.
On the whole, Foscolo's prose is turgid and affected, and reflects the character of the man who always tried to pose, even before himself, in dramatic attitudes.
This was obviously nothing else than the substitution of a new artifice for the old one; and they fell from bombast into effeminacy, from the hyperbolical into the petty, from the turgid into the over-refined.
Weary of the bombastic style of the 17th century, full of conceits and antithesis, men said--let us follow an entirely different line, let us fight the turgid style with simplicity.
About three ounces of water were contained in the lateral ventricles: the veins of the membrane lining these cavities were remarkably large and turgid with blood.
Archer was a “dour body,” solid in matter, turgid and dogmatic in manner, and as solemn in statement as a Presbyterian meenister.
Willie readily consented; and when the article in due course appeared, it turned out to be a really remarkable travesty of dear Jo’s somewhat turgid and oracular style.
Seeing, therefore, that the moderately tight ligature renders the veins turgid and distended, and the whole hand full of blood, I ask, whence is this?
There was no pause in the broken, turgid torrent, which was like a muddy flood pouring over the boulders of a rapid.
Indeed, it was curiously instructive how John Jamieson laid down a causeway of gleaming stepping-stones, so that Deasey might cross lightly over theturgid waters of his victims' souls.
It was impossible and incredible, that mingling in the fetid air of those two sounds, as if the babble of clear spring water had suddenly broken into and merged with the turgid roll of a city sewer.
The beginning, say the critics, ought to be plain and simple--neither embellished with the flowers of poetry, nor turgid with pomposity of diction.
He was up in the saddle with the last word, and gone, galloping into the pitchy black smoke that swirled like a turgidflood from burning Ascalon across the square.
He stood with bent head, his emotions roiled like a turgid brook, a feeling over him of awakening daze, such as one experiences in a sweat of agony after dreaming of falling from some terrifying height.
On the heights above the yellow, turgid flood rode Wellington with a glittering staff that included O'Moy and Murray, the quartermaster-general.
The sluggish and turgid river consoles them scarcely more than the entire absence of any kind of water.
Chivers and his kin his picture of those "writers, turgid and extravagant," to be found in American literature.
They talk incessantly, but in consequence of theturgid and swollen state of the tongue, their speech is broken and stuttering, like that of drunken people, so as to be scarcely intelligible.
The eyes are unusually prominent, and the vessels of the tunica albuginea are turgid with blood, so as to produce a præternatural redness.
Beyond him, to the right, following the river bank, the ground declined gradually towards a black-looking, turgid and overgrown swamp.
Here they dropped to a walk as they splashed their way through the turgid stream.
Here it flowed a sluggish, turgid stream, so sullen, so heavy.
Then there were at Dorking many disciples of the Aikins and Barbaulds, those Clarissas and Laetitias of a pseudo-classic age whose dull wit was as forced as were the turgid sentiments of the eminently proper characters in their writings.
