Before that, I smashed up the old flying tortoise Michael began to remember.

The old tortoise addressed him: 'Hey, there, I'll tell you a secret.

The story is thus used to teach a child to respond like the wise old tortoise when the cue word 'turtle' is given.

He looked like some old tortoise, blinking in the morning light that streamed through the narrow windows.

He sat looking cautiously at me, and blinking like a wrinkled old tortoise.

Even Boris looked impressed, "Where does the skinny old black tortoise put it?"

Zippy is an old hermit tortoise who sits on the pier of River Town.

It dawned on him, very slowly, that demons and succubi didn't turn up looking like small old tortoises.

Jonathan, claimed to be the world's oldest tortoise, is thought to have arrived on the island in 1882.

Work began in 2007 with the demolition of the old tortoise and cactus house.