Turtlelike

Soon they were reduced to a turtlelike lumber, their sharp trotters sinking almost to the hilt. ❋ Kristin Kimball (2010)

I hate this place, I muttered, pulling my sweatshirt neck up over my mouth, turtlelike. ❋ Eileen Cook (2008)

She tried to glean some sense of his reaction, but his face, a leathery olive mask marked by a turtlelike beak and deep amber orbs for eyes, betrayed nothing. ❋ David Mack (2007)

Christy wanted to leap over the desk and choke the haughty cow until her turtlelike face turned blue and her bug eyes popped out of their sockets. ❋ Karen Quinn (2007)

It made his head look turtlelike, held aloft by his thin, weathered neck. ❋ GREGORY SPENCER (2007)

He breathed deeply and made a sort of subterranean growling noise that caused Manfred to hunch his shoulders and try to withdraw his head, turtlelike, into the safer confines of his clothing. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

Judging by the goblin2s turtlelike speed, Kaz had a few minutes, but no more. ❋ Knaak, Richard A. (2004)

Instead, Ronnie had placed her hand over the baby's mouth and turtlelike nose, counting her own breaths until the baby's stopped. ❋ Lippman, Laura, 1959- (2003)

Kit trudged into the wind, his hands in his pockets, his head tucked, turtlelike, into the collar of his jacket. ❋ Deborah Crombie (1997)

My eyes had adjusted to the blackness; I thrust my head forward turtlelike and peered around. ❋ Muller, Marcia (1994)