With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. From LearnThat.org. [Samuel Madden]
= veil = is thick, and the annulus narrow and very thick or "tumid," easily breaking up and disappearing. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
The buttons of her blouse tug around her tumid breasts. From Wordnik.com. [Desilu, Three Cameras] Reference
The thing jumped into my mind and stopped its tumid flow for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
And of some tumid metaphors he says, "All too forced and over-charged.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850] Reference
I forever hate all things vain and tumid, and do my best to discard them. From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
It is brown, tumid, and commonly somewhat more than hemispherical in shape. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
When seen on the third day, the lower part of the abdomen was motionless, tumid, and tender. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Times readers who got through the tumid chunk he offered were reminded that dust has its purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Good and Grumpy] Reference
On the third day the belly was tumid and did not move well; there was no dulness in the right flank. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
To give relief to subjects prosaic as these without seeming unseasonably tumid is extremely difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
The poetry is not of that tumid nature which Pindar uses, but of the graceful simplicity of Homer's verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
The whorls are posteriorly gibbose or tumid at the sutures, and the callus is less spreading than in others of the genus. From Wordnik.com. [The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference
Sunlight drenched us, though more than a third of the sky was black, tumid with rain, intermittently aflicker with electricity. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Vatinius, who had swellings in his neck, was pleading a cause, he called him the tumid orator; and having been told by someone that. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
A dwarf-growing, singular-looking plant, with short, tumid joints from 1 in. to 2 in. long and wide, and nearly the same in thickness. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
But confound this tumid, queasy feeling — this restlessness, swelling, and heat — it was jealousy! jealousy! jealousy! which he had sworn never to feel again. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
The listener's face was tumid and discoloured, his eyes bloodshot. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
When he was at Beaconsfield, he found his legs grow tumid: he went to. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
The tumid nothingness of pure transcendentalism he has always abhorred. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle] Reference
They, indeed, ridiculed his action as theatrical, and his style as tumid. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Pearls of Thought] Reference
The abdomen was tumid, and marked by cicatrices like those of women, who have borne children. From Wordnik.com. [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference
And yet, his own prose was rhythmical, and often as tumid as the worst bombast in Macpherson. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad.] Reference
The smaller joints are swelled; the ribs depressed; the belly tumid, with other parts emaciated. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Consider them, with their tumid sentimental vapouring about virtue, benevolence, -- the wretched. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
First he walked up and down with the open volume in his hand, rolling his eyes, choking, tumid, apoplectic. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
The plant is quite readily distinguished by the form of the pileus with the ascending gills and the tumid annulus. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
For the relief of the tumid, spongy condition of the gums, astringent and antiseptic mouth washes are to be employed. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
The upper lip, and division of the nostrils is swelled, with a florid countenance, a smooth skin, and a tumid abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
A case is described in Class I. 2. 3. 18. where a tumid spleen, attended with fever, terminated in schirrus of that viscus. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The round worm is suspected in children when the belly is tumid, and the countenance bloated and pale, with swelling of the upper lip. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
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