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There is then in the structure of his words something tragic and something comic, something blustering and something low, an obscurity, a vulgarness, a turgidness, and a strutting, with a nauseous prattling and fooling.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Paper colored by turmeric introduced into the other tube had its color much deepened; the acid matter gave a very slight degree of turgidness to solution of nitrate of soda.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith

My poems have been rightly charged with a profusion of double-epithets, and a general turgidness.

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

All his compositions were a mixture of truth and turgidness, of lucid strength and faltering stupidity.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

He degenerates occasionally into mere turgidness and verbosity, as in the following lines:   Oh, partner of my infant grief and joys!

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis