land-tortoise

-- The panther would teach them savage cruelty and a speedy step, and the deer would counsel them to fly from the pursuit of a snail, or a land-tortoise, or the cry of a wren, or the prate of a jackdaw; the fox might teach them cunning, and the dog sagacity, and the wild cat nimbleness, and the antelope fleetness, and the wolf courage, and the owl an insight into my ways.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

They almost all belonged to a large living species of land-tortoise, called _Testudu Indica_, but amongst them were the head, sternum, and humerus of the dodo.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 Various

They would have mistaken the track of the moose for that of a wild cat; they would have thought the tread of a land-tortoise the trail of the grey snake; they would have killed an owl and feasted upon it, for a heath-hen.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

The reduced size of the wings of these island birds is paralleled by the remarkable thinness, &c., of the shell of the "gigantic land-tortoise" of the Galapagos Islands.

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

Its name is _Colossochelys atlas_, a land-tortoise of the Miocene time of geology.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

I caught a large land-tortoise in the woods, of which we had as fine a supper as any I ever remember enjoying.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

The old man and Marko agreed that the common land-tortoise, boiled in oil, was not only good eating but very efficacious in cases of lung disease.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

The minor range of the Himalaya, the Sewalik hills, contain, besides numerous mastodons, the sivatherium and the gigantic land-tortoise

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

The rattles were sewed to the leggings of the women -- little yellow and black land-tortoise shells filled with pebbles -- who sang as they danced and cut themselves with flints until they bled.

The Trail Book Mary Hunter Austin 1901

Hans 'bow, I may explain, was of the most peculiar nature, more like a _skulpat_, as the Boers call a land-tortoise, drawing its wrinkled head into its shell and putting it out again than anything else.

The Ivory Child Henry Rider Haggard 1890