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  • So my best guess is that it's one of those special cakes that zoos make for star animals when they want to celebrate something like Milo the Tortoise's 400th Birthday.

    The Cake Wrecks Correlation 2010

  • Tortoise's jazz-infused electronic sound leaves an alternatingly saturnine and joyful aftertaste.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Thirty-Five 2009

  • On one of them, some of Congo's coolest plan to team up with artists like Tortoise's John McEntire and jazz-funk maestro Matthew Herbert.

    PERISCOPE 2007

  • For me, there will always be something missing in Tortoise's music – namely, a point.

    Aerosmith vs. Matthews: Jaded Geezers Rule! 2001

  • To be sure, Tortoise's main members – Mr. McEntire, Mr. Parker and bassist Douglas McCombs – are capable musicians, but aside from some cool sounds, the songs don't really have enough going on in them, improvisation - or composition-wise, to keep the listener's interest.

    Aerosmith vs. Matthews: Jaded Geezers Rule! 2001

  • Tortoise's fourth album, Standards (Thrill Jockey), finds the band still making the well-crafted background music they put out on their first three albums.

    Aerosmith vs. Matthews: Jaded Geezers Rule! 2001

  • After a time, they had drunk so much that the lake became shallow, and one could see the Tortoise's back.

    Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

  • STELLA, my dear, _mustn't_ Miss GRISSELL tell her kitten not to claw my Tortoise's head every time he pokes his poor nose out?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 Various

  • Some of his supporters deserted him then and went to the other side, who were loudly cheering the Tortoise's inspiriting words.

    Fifty-One Tales Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • Stickly-Prickly helped to unlace Tortoise's back-plates, so that by twisting and straining Slow-and-Solid actually managed to curl up a tiddy wee bit.

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

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