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Meanings of turbid waters in English

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Usage of turbid waters in English
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Great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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In more turbid waters, photosynthesis would still suffer in the first 65 feet of water.
Wired
3
The people call it light, in opposition to the heavy and turbid waters of the Orinoco.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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And from this spring much turbid waters flow.
Gleams of Sunshine: Optimistic Poems
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Then he was seen drifting away in the torrent, and dyeing the turbid waters with his blood.
The Prairie
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Swept now amain those turbid waters o'er
Essays Æsthetical
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There are now no turbid waters, no bulbous plants, no uncouth beasts, and, above all, no storms.
Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life
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Together they had fished in turbid waters for marital nibbles and had told mutual falsehoods to unbelieving tradesmen.
The American Senator
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The Morumbidgee rose upon us six feet in one night, and poured along its turbid waters with proportionate violence.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume...
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He knew not that one seed, cast on these turbid waters, had found good soil, and was springing up.
Pioneers and Founders / or, Recent Workers in the Mission field
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The one half the channel contained the turbid waters of the northern stream, the other still preserved their original transparency.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume...
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The bank caved beneath the feet of his pony, and man and horse went head first into the turbid waters.
A Texas Ranger
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We see the iridescence of the John Law bubble shining over the turbid waters of that river for a moment.
The French in the Heart of America
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There Jabez confronted Tom Cameron, sitting on a sack of meal and watching the turbid waters falling over the dam.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
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However, it is more complicated in turbid waters as the spatial or temporal changes in turbidity might be of natural origin.
Pubmed
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Its general appearance at this point is much like that of the Arkansas, with its turbid waters and shifting sand islands.
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Turbid waters across language varieties
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