How To Use Tumid In A Sentence
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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
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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!
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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.
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What was he doing easing my friend up across his tumid belly and onto his lap?
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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
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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
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There is, however, one in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.
Life Of Johnson
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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
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The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
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It has a tumid rounded shape.
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Eagles, but the latter's computative mind was out of sympathy with zeal of the tumid description; though quite capable of working himself into madness on the details of the Budget, John was easily soothed by his friend's calmer habits of debate.
The Nether World
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Most of those who fall into this type, straying from the type they began with, are misled by the appearance of grandeur and cannot perceive the tumidity of the style. from the Rhetorica ad Herennium. jeff vandermeer says:
Grokking the Subaqueous Consigliere John Clute
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Varicose veins usually result in tumidity, atony and pains in the legs as well as eczema and ulcers, causing great trouble to the patients.
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Altogether, tumidity seems particularly hard to avoid.
On the Sublime
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The tumidity is, in fact, rather pronounced relative to the size of the shell.
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There is often slight guarding and generalised tumidity of the abdomen similar to the ‘doughiness’ of tuberculous peritonitis.
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Mammals that are endemic to this dry forest ecoregion include the Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami), and the funnel-eared bat (Natalus tumidifrons).
Bahamian dry forests
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C.S.C.), and read and enjoy the smart slating Mr. LEHMANN administers to tumid, tumultuous, thrasonic, turncoatist ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, for saying of the brilliant and well-beloved Author of _Fly Leaves_, &c., that he -- forsooth!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892
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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
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puffy tumid flesh
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Grinnell (1909: 278) said that "_ater_ has a tumid bill, broad and high at [the] base with [a] conspicuously arched culmen" whereas "_artemisiae_ has a longer and relatively much slenderer bill, vertically shallow at [the] base and laterally compressed, with the culmen in its greater portion straight or even slightly depressed.
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
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Times readers who got through the tumid chunk he offered were reminded that dust has its purposes.
Good and Grumpy
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O longum memoranda dies! quae mente reporto gaudia, quam lassos per tot miracula uisus! ingenium quam mite solo! quae forma beatis15 ante manus artemque locis! non largius usquam indulsit natura sibi. nemora alta citatis incubuere uadis; fallax responsat imago frondibus, et longas eadem fugit umbra per undas. ipse Anien (miranda fides) infraque superque20 spumeus hic tumidam rabiem saxosaque ponit murmura, ceu placidi ueritus turbare Vopisci
A Villa at Tibur
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Plate surfaces more commonly exhibit a prominent tumid center.
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tumid political prose
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On his left shin there were two bruises, one a leaden yellow graduating here and there into purple, and another, obviously of more recent date, of a blotchy red — tumid and threatening.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
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Et tumidos tumid� vos superastis aqu� Qu鄊 bene totius raptores orbis auaros, Hausit inexhausti iusta vorago maris!
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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In a labial dawn I savoured salty draughts of liquor springing from your tumid lips, luxuriated in a magnanimity your primal crouch expressed, heard half-suppressed love-cries tell the tumult in your loins.
When I Close My Eyes (rev)
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The buttons of her blouse tug around her tumid breasts.
Desilu, Three Cameras
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The rights to a future project currently sit in the directors tumid billfold.
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The orchestra added little apart from a certain unwelcome tumidity to music that would have been more at home as a Hollywood soundtrack.
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Sunlight drenched us, though more than a third of the sky was black, tumid with rain, intermittently aflicker with electricity.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The difference between scrophulous tumours, and those before described, consists in this; that in those either glands of different kinds were diseased, or the mouths only of the lymphatic glands were become torpid; whereas in scrophula the conglobate glands themselves become tumid, and generally suppurate after a great length of time, when they acquire new sensibility.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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The jungle is dense, tumid, and bejeweled with parrots.
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The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Dominant species comprised Synedra ulna var. oxyrhynchus , Gyrosigma spencerii, Cymbella tumida, Surirella ovata , with the proportion of 13.42 % , 12.56 % , 14.00 % , 9.88 ...
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The thing jumped into my mind and stopped its tumid flow for a moment.
In the Days of the Comet
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= veil = is thick, and the annulus narrow and very thick or "tumid," easily breaking up and disappearing.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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The whorls are posteriorly gibbose or tumid at the sutures, and the callus is less spreading than in others of the genus.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
