Lexicographical Neighbors of Turgidities
Literary usage of Turgidities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"... and the turgidities of Pindaric imitators, the truth and simple diction of
pastoral life. Independently of the Arcadia, Maggi, who died in 1699, ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"... him to no inconsiderable degree of preeminence, while he has occasionally
showed the most bombastic expressions and turgidities ..."
3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875)
"... the shining stars,' — such lines, to pick only a few at random out of a whole
mass of similar extravagances, remind one of the splendid turgidities of ..."
4. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"These appear to depend upon differences between the turgidities of their several
tissue systems as these develop, and upon different rates of ..."
5. Modern Musical Drift by William James Henderson (1904)
"and " Pagliacci," or the Mascagni turgidities. These works sparkle with the jewels
of talent, but they never glow with the sunlight of genius. ..."
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