As an adult, she owns a tortoise-shell cat whose double she finds in James McEwan's apartment.
They had come back to the grape arbor, and Thea picked out a sunny place on the bench, where a tortoise-shell cat was stretched at full length.
He was stroking a great tortoise-shell cat which was lying curled up on the bench.
Into the office of the dean of Adelbert College hastened a chunky young man with hair like a tortoise-shell cat.
The story ends when the maid arrives with a "big tortoise-shell cat pressed tight against her and swung down against her body," which she gives to the American wife.
Padding across the shaggy lawn in her slippers, she was accompanied by a tortoise-shell cat which repeatedly darted at her pink pom-poms.
They reminded him of the tales of enchanted halls current in the Alhambra; and the tortoise-shell cat might be some spell-bound princess.
Her tortoise-shell cat eloped at night and clambered to the tiled roof of the Alhambra.
This to peach orchard, grape arbor, watermelons lying like tortoise-shell cats slumbered by sun.
One woman had a tortoise-shell cat in a carrier; it made me think of my fat calico.