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...pplauded successes in reeling in larger than usual trout and thrusting up tortoises in nets. She would not have expected it any other way: that whic...

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...d against some men, had the power to kill them only with their looke. The tortoises and the estriges hatch their egges with their looks only, a signe...

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...es he went to his Mother Jaguar, and she told him how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises. She said to him ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, ... ...-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo. There are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some in my garden); but the...

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...l thus: ‘I don’t ask to enter the administration where people advance like tortoises—there’s your cousin, who has stuck in one post for twenty years. ...

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...ellous curiosities hanging round, such as a dried crocodile, the shells of tortoises, of sea-urchins and crabs, all to her eyes most strange and weird... ... from infancy, and had nearly reduced themselves to the condition of great tortoises. It was no small surprise when, very late on a July evening, when...

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...er the moment we are down, and lie closed up in our shells like great land tortoises turned on their backs, waiting till some one is good enough to fi...

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...ore is of the high blood of the Delawares, and is the great chief of their Tortoises! That some of this stock are among the people of whom the singer ... ...en- emies during the evening. “We will go,” said Uncas. “Whither?” “To the Tortoises; they are the children of my grandfathers.” “A y, lad,” said the ...

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...ld see floating on the surface of the waters enormous chelonia, preadamite tortoises, resem- bling floating islands. Over the dimly lighted strand the...

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...ter 9 Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Chapter 9 THE DAY WAXED HOT. A few little silver tortoises of cloud had crawled across the desert of sky, and hidden themsel...

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...en, they did nothing but ramble about the island, shoot parrots, and catch tortoises; and when they came home at night, the Spaniards provided their s...

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...returned, towing the two whale- boats, which had been found turned up like tortoises on the beach. Noon came, and nothing more was heard from the dese...

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... I should be free to class this monster among amphibious reptiles, such as tortoises or alligators. Well, no! the blackish back that supported me was ...

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...d of two.” “To go how far, do you say, Porthos?” “Four leagues and a half.” “That will be a good pace.” “I could have embarked you on the canal, but t...

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...l History of the Group — Ornithology, curious Finches — Rep- tiles — Great Tortoises, habits of — Marine Lizard, feeds on Sea-weed — Terrestrial Lizar... ...d by the strange Cyclopean scene. As I was walk- ing along I met two large tortoises, each of which must have weighed at least two hundred pounds: one... ...e few dull-coloured birds cared no more for me than they did for the great tortoises. 23rd. — The Beagle proceeded to Charles Island. This archipelago... ...d pigs and goats; but the staple article of animal food is supplied by the tortoises. Their numbers have of course been greatly reduced in this island... ... company of a frigate some years since brought down in one day two hundred tortoises to the beach. September 29th. — We doubled the south-west extremi... ...vel had been built in which two men lived, who were employed in catch- ing tortoises, whilst the others were fishing on the coast. I paid this party t... ...s do _carne con cuero_), with the flesh on it, is very good; and the young tortoises make excellent soup; but other- wise the meat to my taste is indi... ...om Chile.* Of sea-turtle I believe there are more than one species, and of tortoises there are, as we shall presently show, two or three species or ra... ...n his voyage in 1669, states that there were no reptiles in Bourbon except tortoises; and the Officier du Roi asserts that before 1768 it had been att...

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...urse of twenty-four hours, as many of the canvass-back ducks and Gallipago tortoises as his canoes would hold. In the whole of this adventure we saw n... ...we were soon plen- tifully sup. plied with fresh provisions. W e found the tortoises as fine as we had ever seen, and the ducks surpassed our best spe... ... if freely in- dulged in, with violent headache. We had seen several large tortoises near the seashore to the eastward of the hill, and perceived they... ...oe in Five V olumes ence in any quantity. Having killed the largest of our tortoises, and obtained from him not only food but a copious supply of wate...

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...wings, fitted on branches of black coral, lay about among purple cushions, tortoiseshell strigils, cedar boxes, and ivory spatulas. There were antelop... ...were hopping about, and the sun’s latest fires gilded the carapaces of the tortoises as they came forth from the reeds to inhale the breeze. Matho wou... ...dges so tightly that they might have been taken for an assemblage of large tortoises. The projectiles slid over these oblique masses. The Carthaginian...

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...ke new varieties of some of them. There are also a clean race of frogs and tortoises, and a few mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave their traces a... ...y squashed out of existence like pulp tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained ...

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...make new varieties of some of them. There are also a clean race of frogs and tortoises, and a few muscles in it; muskrats and minks leave their traces... ... squashed out of existence like pulp, — tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has raine...

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... shoals about the river; the big canes on the further side hold numberless tortoises, we are told, but see none, for just now they prefer taking a sie...

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...d carried its precious legs away to deposit them in a place of safety. The tortoises also rapidly dropped into the water, as our boat ruffled the surf...

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... cast thee down headlong upon some rocks, as the eagles use to do with the tortoises for the breaking of their shells, as the bald pate of the poet Ae...