... 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」
...—Heroic undertakings against the serpent and the tortoise...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Uponthe mountain he sees a serpent, a tortoise, and aneagle, all three of enormous dimensions, approaching toattack him, with a man upon a black horse, which haswings on its feet, in the rear of them...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...He kills theserpent and the tortoise, but the eagle flies away...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...It is well known thatthe house or boat of the tortoise or turtle is formedby the expansion of the usual bones of the skeletontill they meet and unite, and thus become continuous...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Gopherus berlandieri Agassiz: Texas Tortoise...
Robert K Selander 「Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, México」
...There have been several indications that a large species of tortoise existed in north-central Mexico...
John M. Legler 「A New Tortoise, Genus Gopherus, From North-central Mexico」
...The way in which a Tortoise, the Cistudo lunaria, prepares its nest is extremely curious...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...On careful enquiry they ascertained that therebellion was due to the shape of a large new temple which had mostunfortunately been built in the shape of a tortoise, an animal ofthe very worst character...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...By filling uptwo wells, which represented the eyes of the tortoise, they at onceblinded that disreputable animal and rendered him incapable ofdoing further mischief...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...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」
...1904, Tortoise and shell in Maya literature; in Bureau of Ethnology,Bulletin 28, pp...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...The "jaw tooth" wasfrom a peccary, the "human skull" was the carapace of a tortoise...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...The tortoise and the butterfly are alike incapable of preventing their destruction...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) 「The System of Nature, Volume 1」
..., or (sö´-lä-fät), "the tortoise," γ
Lyræ...
William Tyler Olcott 「A Field Book of the Stars」
...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」
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