Meanwhile, the 23-year-old Pattinson may be the tortoise to Lautner's hare.
tortoise disqualified for technical reasons, first place awarded to Sputnik hare.
She is married with two children, two dogs, a cat and a tortoise.
The tortoise Hollande, early on in his bid to become the Socialist nominee, had only two reporters on his beat.
The first lawyer, you know, was a waif that was adopted by a tortoise and a fox.
Another manoeuvre of the tortoise was to seize the tail of its antagonist.
Jimmy Kinsella sat on a stone with his back to the party in the tortoise.
The latter was the weapon with which the tortoise was to be killed.
Priscilla, rowing with short, decisive strokes, drove the tortoise forward.
There are three characters in the story: the Hare, the tortoise and the Fox.
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.
