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Usage examples of tortoise.

Differences in form and amplitude of curve are well illustrated by various muscles of the tortoise.

Elsewhere a carved red-lacquer chair stood beside a seventeenth-century cabinet decorated with marquetry of pewter and tortoise shell on a palisander ground.

This shelter was known as a testudo, meaning tortoise: the shelter looked like the shell, and the ram like the a head going in and out.

Huy assured him, and as he spoke the distant axemen formed up quickly into the testudo formation, an armoured tortoise of shields, and they trotted out between the enclosing arms of spearmen, beating the encircling movement with minutes to spare.

May I ask whether you are any kin to the famous Mr Aubrey of Testudo aubreii, that most splendid of the tortoise kind?

Goliath, who paused in perfect view, so well turned to the light that they could even count his plates, comparing them with those of Testudo aubreii on the Indian Ocean, which Maturin had discovered, described and named, giving Jack his only likelihood of earthly immortality, and with the thin-shelled and lighter though still respectable tortoise of Rodriguez.

I flinched, pulled up shoulders, made as much like a scared tortoise as a man can, and waited for the blow.

Hartstein popped into the Eleatic academy, Zeno was going over the tortoise paradox for the benefit of the young men in his class.

The area beyond the elevator was filling up with prehistoric creatures: a duck-billed dinosaur, an Eryops, an ancient tortoise, all moving rather stiffly, like people in tuxedos entering a subway car.

These fishes, like the tortoise, the armadillo, the sea-hedgehog, and the Crustacea, are protected by a breastplate which is neither chalky nor stony, but real bone.

When Mym was carried off by the usurping Duke Eunicet of Dukedom, Douglas went to her rescue, with the help of a Great Sea Tortoise named Oval.

This was more like the constant overcorrections of a novice driver, for the Tortoise indeed seemed to be hunting for some proper path.

Plunger Plumstead, whose head was sunk, like that of an aged tortoise, into a collar several sizes too large for him, sported an ancient black velvet jacket and a silk scarf.

Jordan in the lead, our path took us by the Tortoise Fountain with its handsome boys helping turtles crawl up to a higher fountain.

Huy assured him, and as he spoke the distant axemen formed up quickly into the testudo formation, an armoured tortoise of shields, and they trotted out between the enclosing arms of spearmen, beating the encircling movement with minutes to spare.