They have retractable heads

Usage examples of turtles.

But when he opened his mouth to say the words, to speak to her of teke and Turtles and junkyard secrets, it was as though the years had rolled back and he was in high school again, standing with her in that corridor, wanting so desperately to ask her to the prom and somehow unable to.

And he guessed that the craft must rest on the backs of an unknown number of turtles who were thus transporting it in their own fashion.

When Blake was done, he went out to lay the unconscious lizard on a pile of bracken the turtles had thrown to one side.

It beamed in regular pulsations, sending their appeal for help flooding out, though whether their slide down the cliff and the subsequent alteration of site made by the determined turtles had dislocated it past an effective sending he could not be sure.

The ground heaved, more turtles were stirring about the immobile ones he had already shot.

As the dose dissolved on his tongue, he closed his eyes again, determined not to see, behind those lids, a rocky overhang hiding a betraying scratch in its shadow, scarlet lizards aiming spears, or a platoon of turtles bearing away the shuttle.

Looking back, he could see the turtles, masses of legionaries roofed with shields, beginning to move forward.

Between the towers and at either side were the turtles, each two hundred men, shields over their heads.

More turtles coming against the far side of the castle, where the slope was too steep for towers.

The towers were close to the wall, the turtles, their path a trail of bodies where stones had broken through the roof of shields or arrows found holes, mostly out of his sight.

The men who caught the turtles brought a fairly strong and definite opinion to bear upon them, that passed into action, and later on into money.

Slugs have ridden their contempt for defensive armour as much to death as the turtles their pursuit of it.

Moreover, the slugs fare best in the long run, for turtles are dying out, while slugs are not, and there must be millions of slugs all the world over for every single turtle.

They played catch with his turtles, tossing them back and forth while Tommy ran between them, red-faced and crying.

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