Ken thanked him gratefully, and they both went forward, and there, leaning against the gray steel of the little turret, with the small waves lapping over the turtle-back forward, Ken told his father how their strange meeting had come about. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
She was to have two separate parallel hulls under water; above she was of turtle-back shape. ❋ Various (N/A)
Her small bridge, with its 12-pounder gun, steering wheel, compass, and engine-room telegraphs, was placed on the top of the turtle-back and about 25 feet from the bows. ❋ Unknown (1925)
She had a low, sharp bow and the old-fashioned turtle-back forward instead of the high, weatherly forecastle of the later destroyers, and in anything more than a moderate breeze or a little popple of a sea she was like a half-tide rock in a gale o 'wind. ❋ Unknown (1925)
As the troop ship glided down the sea lane, the old man still watched it from the turtle-back. ❋ Unknown (1922)
She rested upon her stage, a great, sleek bronze ship, low and rakish, with pointed ends and a flattened, arched turtle-back dome of glassite covering the superstructure and the decks from bow to stern. ❋ Ray Cummings (1922)
A long, narrow car; yet with its turtle-back and its propelling gas-tube at the rear, with a rudder on each side of the tube, I realized that it was designed also for sub-sea travel. ❋ Ray Cummings (1922)
They had made up their minds to see a turtle-back deck with a narrow level platform in the centre; instead they found that the deck was almost flat and, in nautical parlance, flush, save where it was broken by the elongated conning-tower topped by the twin periscopes and slender wireless mast. ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)
Those old-time turtle-back vehicles had outside a small single seat for the coachman only. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Ladies going back and forth and gentlemen of leisure used their own conveyance, a turtle-back affair that was entered by a row of steps. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Even in the daylight he needs must look out over that placid sunlit sea and imagine here and there upon its surface the low tower and grey turtle-back of a submarine. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Tallega spread it on the grass, weighting one end with the turtle-back, as he read, with the children looking over his shoulder. ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)
She circled round him bellowing, and laid her neck across the curve of his great turtle-back, and he disappeared under water for an instant, but flung up again, grunting in agony while the blood ran. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
He was very unhappy; but he saw the deck-steward lashing chairs together, and, since he had boasted before the man that he was never seasick, his pride made him go aft to the second-saloon deck at the stern, which was finished in a turtle-back. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
He was fainting from seasickness, and a roll of the ship tilted him over the rail on to the smooth lip of the turtle-back. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
I arranged my buffalo skin over my provisions as a protection, turtle-back fashion. ❋ Fitzgerald, F Scott (1899)
It came down in short smooth rushes till lowered half way or more, when it took a run and settled swiftly its turtle-back shape with the deep border piece fitting exactly the edge of the bedstead. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
It must be noted, too, that "the bark is exceedingly variable, black-barked or brown-barked trees, roughly or narrowly fissured, are very common and in their extreme forms very different in trunk appearance from the typical or most-abundant 'turtle-back' form with broad, yellow or light brown plates." ❋ George Wharton James (1890)
Through this the director hailed the other vessel, and as the air-pipe was near the stern of the crab, and therefore at a distance from the only visible portion of the turtle-back roof, his voice seemed to come out of the depths of the ocean. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Trevor did [a turtle] back after having sex with the transvestite for the sixth time.
Trevor did a turtle back after [five seconds] of sex.
Casey did a turtle back on [Trevor's] mom. ❋ BigMAC86 (2008)
Hey Christen, are you gonna eat your [turtle back] fries?
Unpopular opinion: [Turtle back] fries at Chick-fil-A are the best fries ever.
I hate it when [Chick fil A] gives me those turtle back fries.
Turtle back fries are a vehicle [for sauce]. ❋ Brookola (2021)
I was banging [my old lady] last night and gave her a turtle back when she wasn't expecting it. I then gave her a [Donky punch] and finished off with a [chili dog] before she woke-up. ❋ Addadamski (2007)
Man, these [tighty whities] [gave] me a [turtle-back sack]. ❋ Ank D. Holla (2007)
[I just] [got done] putting the turtle back in its shell ❋ Ishitoften (2021)
“Wow, [Elijah] just [got done] turtle-backing [Jeremy]!” ❋ Educated_Scholar21301 (2019)
