mud-turtle

There are also a clean race of frogs and tortoises, and a few mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave their traces about it, and occasionally a travelling mud-turtle visits it.

Walden 2004

Sometimes, when I pushed off my boat in the morning, I disturbed a great mud-turtle which had secreted himself under the boat in the night.

Walden 2004

Tad kept silent and tore neat bites from his dinner, the leg of a huge flightless bird the size of a cow and with the brains of a mud-turtle.

The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

Tad kept silent and tore neat bites from his dinner, the leg of a huge flightless bird the size of a cow and with the brains of a mud-turtle.

The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

"Horrors!" said Aunt Stanshy, startled by this unexpected sight of the second mud-turtle.

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

"Why, you look like a mud-turtle," said Aunt Stanshy, bending over still farther and holding out the lamp, whose light fell on Will.

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

It is said there are plenty of fish in it; but my most important captures hitherto have been a mud-turtle and an enormous eel.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

It was very still and quiet in the woods, except, now and then, when Splash would run through the dried leaves, looking for another mud-turtle, perhaps.

Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Laura Lee Hope

He was not to suffer the little world to break away, but was to attach it to his canoe by a string formed of the sinews of the mud-turtle.

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

He blew the bubble upon the water, and he set the cake afloat in the bubble, having first fastened it to his canoe with a string formed of the sinews of the mud-turtle.

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