But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of the word.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
He is supposed to be a romantic and amorous boy; and therefore the dramatist tries to make him talk turgidly, about seeking for "an archangel with purple wings" who shall be worthy of his lady.
"George Bernard Shaw"
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thus He wrestled with his awful agony Till almost dark; and then, at last-then, with The very latest lingering group of his Companions, he moved turgidly toward home- Nay, rather oozed that way, so slow he went,- With lothful, hesitating, loitering, Reluctant, late-election-returns air, Heightened somewhat by the conscience-made resolve Of chopping a double-armful of wood As he went in by rear way of the kitchen.
"A Child-World"
James Whitcomb Riley