tortoise disqualified for technical reasons, first place awarded to Sputnik hare.
The tortoise Hollande, early on in his bid to become the Socialist nominee, had only two reporters on his beat.
Meanwhile, the 23-year-old Pattinson may be the tortoise to Lautner's hare.
She is married with two children, two dogs, a cat and a tortoise.
I had, too, and I own it was absurd, a tortoise named Chrysagre.
The tortoise in the right road will beat a racer in the wrong.
With these words he took his tortoise on his back and went off.
Gone were the figs and almonds, the indigo, ivory, tortoise shells.
Nolens Volens tries it by a process like "Achilles and the tortoise."
The pot-boy's movements resembled those of a tortoise in celerity.
1550s, altered (perhaps by influence of porpoise) from Middle English tortuse (late 15c.), tortuce (mid-15c.), tortuge (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin tortuca (mid-13c.), perhaps from Late Latin tartaruchus "of the underworld" (see turtle). Others propose a connection with Latin tortus "twisted," based on the shape of the feet. The classical Latin word was testudo, from testa "shell." First record of tortoise shell as a coloring pattern is from 1782.
