The professor, a small man of middle age who wore tortoiseshell- rimmed spectacles, flitted covetously about the room, inspecting its treasures with a glistening eye.

He put a case full of tortoiseshell frames on the counter.

The fact that it was tortoiseshell made me laugh, somehow.

Then he went on to suggest that I should have her tortoiseshell toilet set!

It is also possible to have a tortoiseshell or tabby point.

She stood now, golden hair up and held with tortoiseshell combs.

She pulled off her tortoiseshell glasses and blinked at him.

The old woman drew a tortoiseshell comb through her long hair as she spoke.

The chances of finding a male tortoiseshell have been calculated at about 200 to 1.

They were tortoiseshell,Just like that soap dish you gave me for my birthday.

There was a tortoiseshell cat on her lap, fast asleep.

Tortoiseshell can also be expressed in the point pattern.

This also includes the tortoiseshell pattern in all colors and the three patterns.

Among these items was a large looking-glass in a tortoiseshell frame.

Since the 1973 ban on tortoiseshell commerce, replacements have been developed.

There is one compensation, however, for the unfortunate tortoiseshell toms.

He put on tortoiseshell half-glasses, read the papers, then signed them.

The first cat, discovered in 1984, was a tortoiseshell named Cornflower.

Her blond hair was swept back neatly into a tortoiseshell clip.

It was answered by a young woman wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a look of cool assessment.

In each of the bay windows sat a cat, a tortoiseshell and a brown tabby.

David polished away some of the grime and revealed a tortoiseshell pattern.

He had on dark glasses with round tortoiseshell frames.

In the candlelight the latter were like old jewelry or polished tortoiseshell.

Butterflies such as the small tortoiseshell are common in the Old Pale area.

A little bone comb is bound to the lower broad end of the tortoiseshell.