Which preposition to use with tortoise

in Occurrences 9%

I may not deny but that this nation of ours, doth bene audire apud exteros, is a most noble, a most flourishing kingdom, by common consent of all geographers, historians, politicians, 'tis unica velut arx, and which Quintius in Livy said of the inhabitants of Peloponnesus, may be well applied to us, we are testudines testa sua inclusi, like so many tortoises in our shells, safely defended by an angry sea, as a wall on all sides.

on Occurrences 6%

Try to imagine the gradual genesis of such myths as the Egyptian scarabaeus and egg, or the Hindoo theory that the world stood on an elephant, the elephant on a tortoise, the tortoise on that infinite note of interrogation which, as some one expresses it, underlies all physical speculations, and judge: must they not have arisen in some such fashion as that which I have pointed out?

at Occurrences 3%

On the fifth they were at anchor in the Bay of Tortoises at the Island of La Vache, where Sharkey and his four men had been hunting.

with Occurrences 2%

But their forms were sometimes merely animal, a toad, a tortoise with a sun upon its back, and upon each side a star with the moon in her first change; another was a monstrous figure in basalt, representing a head surmounting a female bosom, diminishing to a ball; another was a human figure made from a gypseous stalactite.[N]

for Occurrences 2%

Right opposite stands Tactus, strongly mann'd With three thousand bristled urchens for his pikemen, Four hundred tortoises for elephants; Besides a monstrous troop of ugly spiders, Within an ambushment he hath commanded Of their own guts to spin a cordage fine, Whereof t'have fram'd a net (O wondrous work!)

inside Occurrences 2%

So he went home and told her to cook him some food quickly; she asked why, and he said "The Raja has a tortoise inside him and I am going to look at him."

into Occurrences 1%

Seen under these circumstances the Ship of State might be said to have been converted from a tortoise into a crab every time any danger threatened.

of Occurrences 1%

Our present enigma as to how a First Cause could itself have been brought into existencehow the tortoise of the fable, that bears the elephant that bears the world, is itself supported,may be wholly due to our necessary mistranslation of the four or more variables of the universe, limited by inherent conditions, into the three unlimited variables of Space and the one of Time.

as Occurrences 1%

So I am now going to give him the Hare riding the Tortoise as a piece of fun.

out Occurrences 1%

Leave Achilles and the tortoise out of the account altogether, he would have saidthey complicate the case unnecessarily.

after Occurrences 1%

We started a chamois, and saw him race across the broad field of snow like the wind, while I could only follow, laboring knee-deep in the snow, like a tortoise after a hare.

Which preposition to use with  tortoise