turbid

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The 29-year old man had been hiking alone on the remote Turbid Lake Trail when he apparently surprised the bear, according to park officials.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

Turbid water was surging among the trees and bushes everywhere, and rushing like a mill-race in hollows.

From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

But ah! not his the eventual fate Which doth the journeying wave await— Doomed to resign its limpid state     And quickly grow Turbid as passion, dark as hate,     And wide as woe.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

Turbid from London's noise and smoke, Here I find air and quiet too; Air filtered through the beech and oak, Quiet by nothing harsher broke Than wood-dove's meditative coo.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

Pent in by frowning mountains high, It stretches silent as the tomb, Turbid and thick its waters lie, No eye can pierce their yellow gloom.

From The Guards Came Through and Other Poems by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir