mud-turtles

Even when Bud roared with laughter at their queer appearance and called them "mud-turtles" and "footballs" they did not resent the insults, for they had never heard of either a turtle or a football before.

Queen Zixi of Ix Baum, L. Frank 1971

Todd each wanted to marry Madame Bill, and their notions of it were as different as sharks are different from mud-turtles, Flannagan's notion mainly resembling a shark's, as follows.

The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

None of them had ever seen a wood tortoise before, and the box-like, horny shell was not like that of the little mud-turtles in

Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope

Standing on the weedy margin, and throwing the line over the elder-bushes that dip into the water, it seems as if we could catch nothing but frogs and mud-turtles, or reptiles akin to them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Once they paddled softly around the little island at the end, and a colony of baby mud-turtles went scrambling madly from a log into the water.

Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Julia Augusta Schwartz

There were mud-turtles that paddled their queer little rafts right up to yours, and poked their dreadful snaky heads right up at you out of the water.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

One of those mud-turtles I used to play with as a boy up in Columbia

A Far Country — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

One of those mud-turtles I used to play with as a boy up in Columbia

A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

One of those mud-turtles I used to play with as a boy up in Columbia

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

One could see many mud-turtles floating lazily, feet outstretched in poise; and bullfrogs and little frogs; and, in the clear places, trim and self-sufficient mud hens.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909