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Example sentences for: tortoise

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The central Kasumigaike (Misty Lake) is the most attractive of the ponds, graced by its Tortoise Shell Island — the tortoise being much favored by the Japanese as a symbol of long life.
Vishnu may appear in art as a fish, a tortoise, a boar, a man-lion, or a dwarf, the first five of his nine avatars.
The story reverses a fairy tale that these guys aren't that many years distant from: The hare is beating the four-wheeled gadget--the rich tortoise of the '90s.
In a long accompanying profile, Starr says he is the "tortoise" to Clinton's "hare."
When Williams addresses the child as his noble patron ("my Lord") and alludes to the old myth of the tortoise that supports the universe, he slyly introduces the underlying weight of civilization and history into the interchange between him and the child.