Literary notes about TURBID (AI summary)
Turbid is employed in literature to vividly depict states of obscurity and muddiness, both in literal and metaphorical contexts. It describes natural scenes, where rivers or streams are portrayed as murky and heavy with sediment—invoking images of swollen, uncertain water bodies that hint at danger or neglect [1, 2, 3]—while also capturing abstract states such as confused emotions or a mind clouded by turmoil [4, 5, 6]. The term appears equally in scientific and technical discourses to indicate mixtures scattered with particulates, providing a tangible contrast between clarity and opacity [7, 8, 9]. Thus, turbid enriches narratives by seamlessly blending precise, physical descriptions with deeper thematic symbolisms [10, 11, 12].
- the water of this river is turbid at all seasons of the year but is by no means as much so as that of the Missourie.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - It was now early spring, and the river was swollen and turbulent; great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Nile at this point is muddy, swift and turbid, and does not lack a great deal of being as wide as the Mississippi.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - But that [upper] fire, they say, is tranquil, pure, harmless, eternal; but this [earthly] fire is turbid, smoky, corruptible, and corrupting.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - Then his language, like his thought, is all his own: sublime, impassioned, burning, turbid; instinct with a deep volcanic fire of genuine enthusiasm.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) The Catholic Reaction by John Addington Symonds - … Another thought flashed like lightning across his turbid mind; — the packet!
— from The Flaming Jewel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers - The juice which is turbid and pale yellow in color contains 9% citric acid, 3–5% gum and sugar and 2–8/10% inorganic salts.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera - Boiling makes it turbid and when concentrated it has a slightly astringent taste.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera - Proof-spirit dissolves almost the whole into a turbid liquor; the tincture in rectified spirit is transparent.
— from The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Practical Botany, and the Uses of Plants. Either Growing Wild in Great Britain, or Cultivated for the Puroses of Agriculture, Medicine, Rural Oeconomy, or the Arts by William Salisbury - Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms, he has sat on the prow of Adrian's barge, looking into the green, turbid Nile.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - And he to me: "Across the turbid waves What is expected thou canst now discern, If reek of the morass conceal it not.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri - Alas! betwixt me and you, the turbid waters roll.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
