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'Turbid', Amphirho is the 'Surrounding' river, Ianthe is 'She who delights', and Ocyrrhoe is the 'Swift-flowing'.] [Footnote 1616: i.e. Eos, the 'Early-born'.] [Footnote 1617: Van Lennep explains that Hecate, having no brothers to support her claim, might have been slighted.] [Footnote 1618: The goddess of the hearth (the Roman "Vesta"), and so of the house.
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‘Turbid’, Amphirho is the ‘Surrounding’ river, Ianthe is ‘She who delights’, and Ocyrrhoe is the ‘Swift-flowing’.
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Turbid water is less penetrable to the shorter wavelengths because it scatters them more quickly, and, as a result, green and yellow penetrate farther than blue in turbid water.
Chapter 9 1983
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Turbid businesses should not remain unpunished, since we do not want the Revolution to become demoralized.
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Winnebago (Algonquian designation, meaning "Turbid water people"?) or
The Siouan Indians 1882
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Turbid are all the streams of earthly pleasures, and fully now I realize those lines, which once seemed the essence of misanthropy --
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-- Turbid water is also, in some way as yet insufficiently explained, made clear by the Indian plan of putting a piece of alum into it.
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866
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Turbid water was surging among the trees and bushes everywhere, and rushing like a mill-race in hollows.
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Turbid rather suits the muddy kind of inspiration which London porter confers.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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"_Turbid_ ecstacy," is surely not so good as what you _had_ written, "troublous."
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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