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They say the turbid water is safe to drink, but I don't trust it.turbid = cloudy with sediment
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She was unsettled by a flow of turbid thoughts and feelings.turbid = confused, muddled, or unclear
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All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well. (source)turbid = cloudy with sediment
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The turbid water lay still; there was not even the ghost of a breeze.† (source)
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The Devon's course was determined by some familiar hills a little inland; it rose among highland farms and forests which we knew, passed at the end of its course through the school grounds, and then threw itself with little spectacle over a small waterfall beside the diving dam, and into the turbid Naguamsett.† (source)
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But the extraordinary satisfactions of the steamy bathroom seemed to have evaporated as she shut the door, and the washing of her clothes, watching the turbid water flow from them down the drain of the bathtub, was disappointingly utilitarian.† (source)
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The turbid river was encumbered with masses of charred wood, with black hulks of vessels, and skeletons of fallen bridges....† (source)
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The rabbit fetched up against the grating, drifted a little way along it, found the bottom and crawled out of the turbid water.† (source)
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We lingered for another hour, and again, as at Coney Island, Leslie gently but irresistibly seized the conversational helm, steering us into turbid backwaters and eerie lagoons where I, at least, had never ventured with a female.† (source)
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There was no opening except the door, always open, and the air without had the turbid yellow light of sand-storms.† (source)
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Simultaneously Amory classed him with the crowd, and he seemed no longer Sloane of the debonair humor and the happy personality, but only one of the evil faces that whirled along the turbid stream.† (source)
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Perhaps, worn out by exposure, starvation, disease, he had found an end in some hospital, or in an access of despair had sought death in the turbid Seine; but perhaps with his Southern instability he had given up the struggle of his own accord, and now, a clerk in some office in Madrid, turned his fervent rhetoric to politics and bull-fighting.† (source)
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Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms you had sat on the prow of Adrian's barge, gazing across the green turbid Nile.† (source)
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Those were slow, silent, often turbid; flowing over beds of mud into which the incautious wader might sink and vanish unawares.† (source)
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I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.† (source)
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Soon,{23a}then, saw the sage companions who waited with Hrothgar, watching the flood, that the tossing waters turbid grew, blood-stained the mere.† (source)
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