Adjective : the turbid waters near the waterfall. From Dictionary.com.
Any turbidness or impurity in the water will injure the clearness of the sweetmeats. From Wordnik.com. [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference
Yet, in the midst of the turbidness of adolescence, I was still two distinct personalities. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
A turbidness will instantly ensue, and a flocculent matter collect on the surface of the fluid, if the mixture be left undisturbed. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
I think it will never be so disagreeable to me hereafter, now that I find this turbidness to be its native color, and not (like that of the Thames) accruing from city sewers or any impurities of the lowlands. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
He threw a glance at it, and, without lifting his head from the stone, again let both his eyes rest fixedly on something -- both motionless, both veiled in a strange whitish turbidness, both as though blind and yet terribly alert. From Wordnik.com. [The Crushed Flower and Other Stories] Reference
The north, although narrower and with a gentler current, is deeper than the south: its waters too are of the same whitish brown colour, thickness, and turbidness: they run in the same boiling and rolling manner which has uniformly characterized the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.] Reference
Page view page image: this paper, it is wonderful that it was not spiritually distilled; that its essence did not arise, purified from all alloy of falsehood, from all turbidness of obscurity and ambiguity, and from a pure essence of truth and invigorating motive, if of any it were capable. From Wordnik.com. [Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life] Reference
With such intense action of mind as he brought to bear on this paper, it is wonderful that it was not spiritually distilled; that its essence did not arise, purified from all alloy of falsehood, from all turbidness of obscurity and ambiguity, and form a pure essence of truth and invigorating motive, if of any it were capable. From Wordnik.com. [Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life] Reference
Now this dilution of the liquor produces a turbidness; because the oil of juniper and other flavouring substances which the spirit holds in solution, become precipitated by virtue of the water, and thus cause the liquor to assume an opaline colour: and the spirit thus weakened, cannot readily be rendered clear again by subsidence. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
I hear the very spirit of turbidness has got into this house! ". From Wordnik.com. [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference
440-pounder, but suspended 2 ft. below the surface -- produced effects but slightly differing from those just described, except that it was accompanied by a more deafening report, while fragments of the cylinder were sent spinning high above the topmost wreaths of delicate, feathery spray, and the rare beauty of the too-transient display was more strongly contrasted with the after turbidness of the seething waters. From Wordnik.com. [Experiments with the American Torpedo-Shells at Chatham] Reference
A succession of mechanical disturbances; the temperature of the water is higher in summer, colder in winter, than when it was shaded and protected by wood; the smaller organisms, which formed the sustenance of the young fry, disappear or are reduced in numbers, and new enemies are added to the old foes that preyed upon them; the increased turbidness of the water in the annual inundations chokes the fish; and, finally, the quickened velocity of its current sweeps them down into the larger rivers or into the sea, before they are yet strong enough to support so great a change of circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
The turbidness of it is not mud precisely. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Geneva] Reference
She could not say to him -- it was a feeling, not a thought -- that her clear soul had taken some turbidness that was foreign to it from his; that when she forgot the past and his existence it settled and left her pure again; she could not say -- the thought existed without form in her mind -- that it would have been better if he had never been born because he had offended; but that just because the offence had been against herself, something of the guilt seemed to attach itself to her, causing her to know remorse and shrink from herself; that it was somehow in his power -- he having performed this miracle -- to deliver her. From Wordnik.com. [Fan : the story of a young girl's life] Reference
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