The stone turtle listens.
Today, barely anything of Karakorum remains but a giant stone turtle that once marked one of its corners.
This one, I ate Kyoto pickles and touched, in Xi'an, a stone turtle's face, cold as stone, as turtle.
Now a puppy, then a fish, a stone, a turtle, an American flag.
We have jotted down a list of other things they are closing over: Alders, autumn leaves, cowslip, cress, dam, darning needle, flag, frog, gentian, gurgle-hellgrammite, lily, message from Lorna Doone, minnow, mosquito, moss, muskrat, rapids, rat, shiner, skates, snail snake, stones tinkle, treble, turtle, violet, willow.
In contrast, Stone sprinted like a turtle version of Usain Bolt into the water and he, too, promptly buried himself.
Like those found elsewhere on Okinawa, but not on mainland Japan, the cemeteries were composed of only a few plots; they consisted of mausoleums made of large, gray slabs of stone with rounded roofs resembling a turtle's shell.
Sitting in his cool, stone home, Mifsud Bonnici rejects arguments about the turtle doves' decreasing population, saying the decline is not alarming, even to EU officials.
It's not that easy to get to your destination, there are ice walls, stone walls and crates to block your turtle's path.
Some, like St. Hilda's, are wincingly modern but many boast stately quads, pristine lawns and appealing details such as stone gargoyles, fountains, gardens and the occasional college turtle wandering the grounds.
Using stone tools, they deboned a catfish, eviscerated a turtle, and defleshed the foot of a crocodile.
