These elevations from beneath the sea varied from mere turtle-backs, as the sailors called them, just visible above the water, to mountains with sky-kissing peaks.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
What a list of water-fowl there would be, and where would turtle go?
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Good thing you don't, for you might have something to say about him that is not pleasant, and though the old man and I are not turtle doves just now, I'm bound to stand up for him for the sake of old times.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice