Going down to the sea-side, I found a large tortoise, or turtle.

Fate rides a tortoise; a biography of Ellen Spencer Mussey.

This domiciled the tortoise for me; otherwise I had only associated him with suburban gardens and the "Zoo."

"Æschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle's letting fall a tortoise on his head.

Having had no food since we got the tortoise, John Anthony and myself set out in search of fresh water, and three remained with the boat.

On one of the flights of steps lay a very large tortoise.

There, in a shop window on the Palais Royal, lay a huge tortoise in a large basin.

[Footnote 53: The Latin word testudo, represented in Greek by the precisely equivalent [Greek: chelonae] in Dio's narrative, means "tortoise."

" Both of these brothers achieved success, but, unfortunately for the moral of the old fable, the hare quite outdistanced the tortoise, without, however, kindling any spark of jealousy in that faithful heart.

Wolsey was on familiar terms with a venerable carp; Clive owned a pet tortoise; Sir John Lubbock contrived to win the affections of a Syrian wasp; Charles Dudley Warner devoted an entire article in the Atlantic Monthly to the praises of his cat Calvin; but did you ever hear of a peacock as a household pet?

Nothing daunted, Magua almost persuaded the Tortoises to surrender the girl.

Wednesday the 9th, hoisting sail, the admiral came to Punta Roxa, or Red Cape, thirty leagues east from Monte Christo, where they procured tortoises as large as bucklers, which went there on shore to lay their eggs in the sand.

The moth is not stimulated by recognising a tortoise, nor the cow by a cobweb.

True the hills, the ponds, the rocks (and I had almost said the speckled tortoise that has crawled up to sun itself on their summit), remain the same.

In one place I saw a tortoise which was twenty cubits long and as many broad, also a fish that was like a cow and had skin so thick that it was used to make shields.

The guiding standard was on high upreared, Where twining snakes the tortoises embrace, While oxtails, crest-like, did the staff's top grace.

Afterward P'ei, pointing with his finger and trembling, cried: "You know how to strike, old tortoise!

In front of me fat blue lizards scuttled away, looking like little lilac-coloured dachshunds; silent brown snakes shot out of reach at the sight of my shadow; and every now and then, poking and grubbing like a hedgehog, behold a large tortoise out for prey like his brother reptiles.

Des Esseintes now watched the tortoise squatting in a corner of the dining room, shining in the shadow.

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.