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