terrapin

If you dined with the Lovell Mingotts you got canvas-back and terrapin and vintage wines; at Adeline Archer's you could talk about Alpine scenery and "The Marble Faun"; and luckily the Archer Madeira had gone round the Cape.

I know it to be true; it happened on this ball; I trod the ship; I knew the crew; I have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney." The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.

The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below.

Bert, with his new weapon went off to the neighbourhood of Terrapin Rock, and there sat down to examine it.

AN animal rescue group needs a digger to help create a home for a giant terrapin called Goliath.

TERRAPIN "I've seen first-hand the positive impact of the scheme but, as with most charities, the challenge is to always keep on top of fundraising.

But according to reptile vet Dr Alan Humphreys, the so-called 'turtles' are actually red-eared slider terrapins and are the most common terrapin to be found in the UK.