"Turtle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other food products, which abound in the Bisayas. Its mountains are clothed with cinnamon-trees, brasil-trees, ebony, orange, and other trees that bear delicious fruit. On the lowlands are bred abundance of deer, buffaloes, turtle-doves, and fowls, besides other kinds of game-birds. But in the rough country are sheltered wild boars, civet-cats, and other fierce ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624 • Various
... to make a treaty with the mikado of Japan, and Mr. Hayes sent a commissioner there; and suppose he should employ Hermann, the wonderful German, to go along with him; and when they came in the presence of the mikado Herman threw down an umbrella, which changed into a turtle, and the commissioner said: "This is my certificate." You would say the country is disgraced. You would say the president of a republic like this disgraces himself with jugglery. Yet we are told God sent Moses and Aaron ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll
... O thou whose forehead, like the radiant East, i. 210. O to whom I gave soul which thou torturest, iv. 19. O to whom now of my desire complaining sore shall I, v. 44. O toiler through the glooms of night in peril and in pain, i. 38. O turtle dove, like me art thou distraught? v. 47. O waftings of musk from the Babel-land! ix. 195. O who didst win my love in other date, v. 63. O who hast quitted these abodes and faredst fief and light, viii. 59. O who passest this doorway, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... should transform him into a leader of banditti, and we would live in princely state in the Apennines. Then we would capture you, papa, and carry you off to the mountains, and I would be your jailer, and give you nothing but turtle-soup, champagne, and kisses till you paid a ransom that ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... South side of C. Van Diemen examined. Anchorage at Bountiful Island: turtle and sharks there. Land of C. Van Diemen proved to be an island. Examination of the main coast to Cape Vanderlin. That cape found to be one of a group of islands. Examination of the islands; their soil, etc. ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2 • Matthew Flinders
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