Tortoise in example sentence

They had been the coverings of those gigantic glyptodons or armadilloes of the pleiocene period, of which the modern tortoise is but a miniature representative.

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Compare that with the tortoise, which can age to more than 100 years.

But I've also, over the last year or so, got in touch with my inner tortoise.

Rachel Sussman: 300? No, 175 is the oldest living tortoise, so nowhere near 2,000.

One watches stunned, incredulous, and possibly deranged, as this tawdry exercise in mirthless smut unfolds with all the wit and dexterity of a palsied Galapagos tortoise.

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