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Meanings of huge tortoise in English

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Usage of huge tortoise in English
1
The dominie, who was an old man, wore the huge tortoise-shell rimmed spectacles of the time.
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
2
There, in a shop window on the Palais Royal, lay a huge tortoise in a large basin.
Against the Grain
3
At one end of the rainbow there is thought to be a huge tortoise, one fathom broad.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
4
There were huge tortoise-shells full of pearls, and hollowed moonstones of great size piled up with red rubies.
A House of Pomegranates
5
The spasmodic lunge of the Shawanoe had overturned the craft, which resembled a huge tortoise, drifting with the current.
The Phantom of the River
6
They were low vessels which floated on the water like huge tortoises.
Banzai! by Parabellum
7
Huge tortoises lay asleep upon the hot mud.
A House of Pomegranates
8
The big, round-topped yellow tents, sheltering twenty men each and looking like huge tortoises, stood in a line.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
9
There were huge tortoises too, paddling about among these other reptiles, which Perry said were Plesiosaurs of the Lias.
At the Earth's Core
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