turtle-backed

Low turtle-backed outlines, with long weapons jutting from their sloped forward plates, the barrels built up from coils or rings, some sort of wave-guide or electromagnetic launcher.

The City Who Fought McCaffrey, Anne 1993

I was halfway across the rue des Pyramides opposite the Tuileries when there was a wild screeching of tires arcing full speed toward me, headlights blinded me momentarily, and with no room at all to spare — I could have sworn that the fender of the turtle-backed Citroën brushed my jacket as I leaped for safety —

The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

But how do you disable a smooth-surfaced turtle-backed machine?

The Status Civilization Robert Sheckley 1966

She was a large ship, English built, with a turtle-backed stern, painted white on the tumble-home of the quarter.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

The palm-trees wave above Marrakesh, turtle-backed mosques and tall towers rise among the gardens and gleam in the sun, but above and beyond every other feature of the far-away fantastic southern capital one watch-tower rises over everything and rears itself into the sky -- the

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

She would lie out there on the shadeless, turtle-backed hills sweeping girdlewise about Wild Rose, and bed the flock so as always to point the star of her mother's candle in the window of her home.

Spring o' the Year 1908

She would lie out there on the shadeless, turtle-backed hills sweeping girdlewise about Wild Rose, and bed the flock so as always to point the star of her mother's candle in the window of her home.

Spring o' the Year 1908

He was out on the turtle-backed bows of her; Moorshed was at the wheel, and another man worked the whistle.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

The sun was shining mildly, and the waters were stirred by great and little vessels; before them on the opposite bank rose the dark green cypresses which marked the grim cemetery of England's dead, and behind them were the great turtle-backed mosques and pencil-like minarets of the two cities, and close at hand the mosaic walls and beautiful gardens of Constantine.

The Princess Aline 1895

The sun was shining mildly, and the waters were stirred by great and little vessels; before them on the opposite bank rose the dark green cypresses which marked the grim cemetery of England's dead, and behind them were the great turtle-backed mosques and pencil-like minarets of the two cities, and close at hand the mosaic walls and beautiful gardens of

The Princess Aline Richard Harding Davis 1890