Tortoise in example sentence

I had, indeed, found a tortoise on the shore, as big almost as I could lift, and had tossed it into the boat; and I had a great jar of fresh water, that is to say, one of my earthen pots; but what was all this to being driven into the vast ocean, where, to be sure, there was no shore, no mainland or island, for a thousand leagues at least?

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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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