... “There was a tortoise, which was, as usual, well protected by its shell,” said Pelisson; “whenever its enemies threatened it, it took refuge within its covering...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
... The Bari chief was, as usual, smeared all over with red ochre and fat, and had the shell of a small land tortoise suspended to his elbow as an ornament...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The chapter on the Tortoise...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The name Compton Tortoise has referenceto the rich brown tones of the upper wing surface,suggestive of those of fine tortoise-shell...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...Compton Tortoise (Eugonia j-album, Vanessa j-album orGrapta j-album)...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...Cat and Tortoise...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...And finallyshe spied Madame Tortoise plodding along towards the school, with thelunch for her little Turtlets...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...The Tortoise sniffed...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...Now when the Tortoise came to the school it was high noon, and all thechildren were waiting open-mouthed for their mammas and the luncheswhich they expected...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...However, in the light of the discovery ofGopherus flavomarginatus, these accounts have new meaning and tend to support my proposal that the species is the largest tortoise in North America...
John M. Legler 「A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico」
...Wooddescribes the efforts made by a tortoise in his possession toattain the summit of a footstool, which shows that the reptilehas some measure of intelligence...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...We have a strongbelief that natural history, written as White of Selborne did his Letterof Timothy the Tortoise, would be very enticing and interesting to youngpeople...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...As the tortoise is often identifiedwith the summer solstice, as previously pointed out, so the snail isassociated with the winter solstice...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...It does not seem to me out of place to set forth the principles onwhich Hegetor of Byzantium constructed a tortoise...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...The Hindoos, for example, imagined the earth as supported by fourelephants which stood upon the back of a gigantic tortoise, which, inits turn, floated on the surface of an elemental ocean...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
...Talkabout a Bush Telegraph! It is a tortoise in its movements compared witha Beachogram...
Joseph Lievesley Beeston 「Five Months at Anzac」
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