[2] "Soporem" in some MSS., "saporem" in others; it is difficult from the turgidity and superabundance of the style to determine which is the best meaning.英文原著 · 《On the Ruin of Britain》
Her voice groped as if she were trying to realize something. The room was growing greyer as she read on through the turgid catalogue of the heathen gods, so packed with stories and pictures, so unaccountably glorious. At last the light failed, and Mrs. Wheeler closed the book.英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
Thus, though eloquence has undoubtedly an essential and intrinsic excellence, and immovable principles common to all languages, founded in the nature of our passions and affections, yet it has its ornaments and modes of address which are merely arbitrary. What is approved in the Eastern nations as grand and majestic, would be considered by the Greeks and Romans as turgid and inflated; and they, in return, would be thought by the Orientals to express themselves in a cold and insipid manner.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
but incoherence, bombast and turgidity.' Yet still I smothered my英文原著 · 《The Clouds》
The crowd's cheers at this changed to howls, as the Negroes, infuriated at their loss, for those costly machines belong to the labourers and not to the ship-owners, turned upon the mob and began to throw brickbats, pieces of iron, chunks of wood, anything that came to hand. It was pandemonium turned loose over a turgid stream, with a malarial sun to heat the passions to fever point.英文原著 · 《The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories》
my noble GENERAL MARION! general! general! Aye that will do! that will do! that sounds somewhat in unison with your deserts."
"Well, but what do you think of the style," replied he, "and of the prerogative -- is it not prodigiously in the pompous?"
"Not at all," said I. "No," continued he; "why now to MY notion, it is very much in the turgid, in the Asiatic. It gives me dominions from river to river, and from the mountains to the great sea, like Tamerlane or Ghengis Khan; or like George III.英文原著 · 《The Life of General Francis Marion》