The word 'tortoise' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a land-dwelling reptile with a hard shell, in a sentence like "The tortoise slowly crossed the road."
He turns his Côte d'Azur dash into a Eurotrash remake of Mr Toad's wild ride, or an accelerated version of the tortoise and the hare in which the tortoise is feared dead and then returns big as life.
And then there are the remoter places – the natural wonders of the volcanic Galápagos islands or Madagascar, where evolutionary isolation brought about extraordinary species such as the giant tortoise and lemur.
It's like watching a tortoise try to climb into a rowing boat.
When the anguish has played itself out at all levels for Heller and for Sym, for the Jews in the ghetto, and for the city as a whole with the arrival of the liberators, Gloria is left alone with a bizarre symbol of a shared psychosis: in a nod to Yeats, a tortoise "moving its slow thighs".
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Mr Khatami's commitment to Iran's theocracy is as unquestionable as his commitment to reform; even if it means moving at tortoise pace, he strives above all to drag the system with him.
As a gentle warning, Mr Giscard d'Estaing points out that his tortoise mascot has a dragon's head and, if called upon, can breathe fire through its nostrils.
9fd0b13b-75f6-46b5-b87e-385c7012da18 RATHER theatrically, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, chairman of the European Union's constitutional convention, has placed a large green ceramic tortoise next to him on the raised dais from where he surveys the proceedings.
In a paper just published in Biology Letters, a group of researchers at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand, led by Meghan Cooling and Phil Lester, describe their attempts to study such disappearances systematically.In this section The fat of the land The hare and the tortoise How much is too much?
