Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Middle English forms of
tortoise .
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Examples
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April 7, 2010 at 6:15 am lubbit lub tortu : tortu lub lubbit = happi race.
…and - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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There were no rural areas to go to in Vietnam for 5 years when McCain was tortu - ... nevermind
Bill Bonds Himself Emotionally To Obama On Readiness, Hope 2009
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Cheney provided "philosophical guidance" for tortu ...
11/21/2005 2005
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First, the geographical: he now faced the most tortu-ous terrain he had ever seen.
Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993
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On and upward the steps mounted, twisting tortu - ously towards their goal, until at last they came to the chamber, full of blinding light, many-coloured and scintillating, which did not penetrate outwards at all-but remained confined to the room which housed it.
The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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On and upward the steps mounted, twisting tortu - ously towards their goal, until at last they came to the chamber, full of blinding light, many-coloured and scintillating, which did not penetrate outwards at all-but remained confined to the room which housed it.
The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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We had dined on soup _à la tortu_, (made of pig's feet,) of which
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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Le membre du Diable est long enuiron la moitié d'vne aulne, de mediocre grosseur, rouge, obscur, & tortu, fort rude & comme piquant. —
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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Erymanthima haec uastificam abiecit beluam, haec e Tartarea tenebrica abstractum plaga40 tricipitem adduxit Hydra generatum canem, haec interemit tortu multiplicabili draconem, auriferam optutu adseruantem arborem. multa alia uictrix nostra lustrauit manus, nec quisquam e nostris spolia cepit laudibus.
From Sophocles 1912
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"It'll be at the end of the season, and it'll be like the 'šlag na tortu'," or, like a cherry atop a dessert, she said.
IAAF.org - News 2010
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