Have they told you about Rameau's treatment of Goujon's pet tortoise?" "I think it was mentioned among his other pranks.

While we lay hulling up and down, our hopes at so low an ebb, we discovered a tortoise, not far from us, asleep in the sea.

The feat would not have been beyond the powers of an athletic tortoise, but the most careful scrutiny failed to reveal any signs of him.

And like the cautious tortoise at a touch Drew in beneath his shell.

Enormous tortoises drowsed in the midst of these clumps of gulf-weed, serving as islands of repose to the seagulls perched on their shells.

The progress of Bowles rivalled that of the historic tortoise.

The mouth of the well was obstructed by an immense tortoise, but when the workmen attempted to take the tortoise out she said: "Burn me rather than take me away from here."

"The little tortoise is referred, with a new and singular bird, to a zoological committee for examination.

After a long story of a live tortoise being cut out from the shoulder of Diminan Caracaracol, quite away from the purpose, F. Roman proceeds to say that the sun and moon came out of a grotto called Giovovava, in the country of a cacique named Maucia Tiuvel.

Among them I noticed a bust of Voltaire and an unusually lively tortoise, generally half-way out of a paper bag.

The standardsthis where dragons were displayed, And that where snakes round tortoises were coiled Terrific flew.

An answer that became famous was given by the Taoist Chuang Tz[)u] (see below) when it was proposed to confer high office in the state on him (the story may or may not be true, but it is typical of Taoist thought): "I have heard," he replied, "that in Ch'u there is a tortoise sacred to the gods.

CHAPTER XV STEVE'S DREAM COMES TRUE "Did you hear anything, Max?" That was the very first thing Steve asked on the following morning, when he poked his head out of his "hole in the wall" like a shrewd old tortoise looking around to learn if the coast were clear.

At my visit, the hospital contained horses, mules, oxen, sheep, goats, monkeys, poultry, pigeons, and a variety of birds, with an aged tortoise, who was known to have been there for seventy-five years.

If he'd only have put the capitals to the words 'La Tortue,' I might have thought a little more about them, instead of taking it for granted that they meant that wretched tortoise in the basement of the house.