tumid

How To Use tumid In A Sentence

• The outermost part is a tough scab-like purple scale, but within is a tumid floret of a highly complex design. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
• It would be so easy to write the article off as the ramblings of a gynophobic choad, but loath as I am to admit it, there is a faint miasma of truth hovering in that tumid swamp. Frankie Thomas: Enter the Contest to Make Christopher Hitchens Laugh!
• While tumidity desires to transcend the limits of the sublime, the defect which is termed puerility is the direct antithesis of elevation, for it is utterly low and mean and in real truth the most ignoble vice of style. Archive 2010-03-01
• What was he doing easing my friend up across his tumid belly and onto his lap?
• The _spikelets_ are arranged in groups of two, facing each other and appearing like a single spikelet with two equal echinate glumes, sessile, or obscurely pedicelled on very short, tumid, pubescent branches. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Such a tumidity is the key complaint we usually have when, as described above, the trite is presented with the pomp of the sublime. On the Sublime
• There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous. Life Of Johnson
• Iuno, tene; tuque o puppem ne desere, Pallas: nunc patrui nunc flecte minas. cessere ratemque accepere mari. per quot discrimina rerum expedior! subita cur pulcher harundine crines velat Hylas? unde urna umeris niueosque per artus caeruleae vestes? unde haec tibi volnera, Pollux? quantus io tumidis taurorum e naribus ignis! tollunt se galeae sulcisque ex omnibus hastae et iam iamque umeri. quem circum vellera Martem aspicio? quaenam aligeris secat anguibus auras caede madens? quos ense ferit? miser eripe parvos, Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
• The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
• It has a tumid rounded shape.