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Example sentences for: tortoise

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Or perhaps a tethered parakeet, sacrificial tortoise, or Judas rabbit?
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.
In the next courtyard, the Mul Chowk, there are two outstanding examples of 17th-century Newari metalwork, tall bronze reliefs of the goddesses Ganga (standing on a crocodile) and Jamuna (standing on a tortoise).
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.