But your common sense would be all but certain of that, when you found, as you would find, the teeth and bones of crocodiles and turtles, who come to land, remember, to lay their eggs; the bones, too, of large mammals, allied to the tapir of India and South America, and the water-hog of the Cape.

"I don't either," said Marian; "those men work as slow as mud-turtles.

" The conversation was taking place at the Elliotts' dinner-table, and Uncle Charley looked up from his carving to say: "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the slower the mud-turtles are, the longer we shall have our guests with us.

And of course there were Ganges soft shell turtles, starback tortoises and melanac turtles.

And of course there were Ganges soft shell turtles, starback tortoises and melanac turtles.

Croc Bank also has enclosures and pits for various kinds of turtles and large aquariums with fish in them.

From turtles, I moved to big lizards i.e. monitor lizards and Green Iguanas.

Apart from my practical studies, there was a huge library at the Croc Bank where I would browse through several books on crocs, snakes, monitors, turtles, the works.

In the dry season, wallows and tunnels dug by crocs provide essential water for other animals, turtles and fish.

Depending on the time left, I would speak about other things too, like crocodiles, turtles or spiders.

There were many students and parents who wanted to be photographed holding the turtles.

Prince Pükler Muskau, who travelled in Tunis, narrates that, "Near the ruins of Utica was a warm spring, in whose almost hot waters we found several turtles, which seemed to inhabit this basin.

As soon as I came to the sea-shore, I was surprised to see that I had taken up my lot on the worst side of the island: for here indeed the shore was covered with innumerable turtles; whereas, on the other side, I had found but three in a year and a half.

I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles; and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished; that I should have lived, if I had not perished, like a mere savage; that if I had killed a goat or a fowl, by any contrivance, I had no way to flay or open it, or part the flesh from the skin and the bowels, or to cut it up; but must gnaw it with my teeth, and pull it with my claws, like a beast.

The austere St. Antonius had lectured long to the eels on the folly of wiggling, to the pikes on the immorality of stealing, and to the crabs and turtles on the danger of sloth.

" "You had better come with me," rejoined Charles, "instead of keeping company there with the snapping-turtles.

Turtles, frogs, and lizards are considered creatures of evil, and are never eaten.

Where would I be getting extraordinary turtles?"

As it was, she came into the house rather like one of those breezy days of spring, which burst all the blossoms, set all the doors and windows open, make the hens cackle and the turtles peep,filling a solemn Puritan dwelling with as much bustle and chatter as if a box of martins were setting up housekeeping in it.

From the road above we could see them in the field below, lying like giant turtles on their backs.

Turtles & postage stamps.

"We'll have to depend for a living on fish, turtles, and fruit.

It's time you learned to catch turtles.

The turtles all ran when they heard me coming.

The girl is forbidden to eat turtle or turtle eggs during the season when the turtles are breeding; but no vegetable food is refused her.