Tortoise

(noun.) usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica.

手打:马吉

• The glyptodon was a monstrous South American armadillo, and a human skeleton has been found by Roth buried beneath its huge tortoise-like shell. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was the tortoise-shell lozenge-box, and Dorothea felt the color mounting to her cheeks. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• On the ledge at the side, were an empty laudanum-bottle and a tortoise-shell handled penknife--soiled, but not with ink. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He's got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• As the cavity is gradually filled up the tortoise presses the earth down with the outer edge of its foot. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• When does a Tortoise Move Quickly? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I think I should prefer tortoise-shell. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Another division was the crocodile branch, and another developed towards the tortoises and turtles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Only the crocodiles and the turtles and tortoises carry on in any quantity into Cainozoic times. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Tortoises lay their eggs in underground nests, where they remain for almost a year, and, strange to say, they have a very curious way of drilling holes for these nests with their tails. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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