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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tortoise-shell? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The necklace made a great heap of jewels on the buhl top of the table, above the intricate arabesque of silver and tortoise-shell. |
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| Buhl, or boulle, is inlaid work with tortoise-shell or metals in arabesques or cartouches. |
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| Mycroft took snuff from a tortoise-shell box, and brushed away the wandering grains from his coat front with a large, red silk handkerchief. |
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| For a dance the men exchange the nose-ring of tortoise-shell for a large, finely carved plate of mother-of-pearl. |
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| All their spectacles that I have seen were crystal set in horn, tortoise-shell, or ivory. |
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| It is also used for tortoise-shell, having in that case a bevel or fleam on the front face, and no set to the teeth. |
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| Miss Mellins was a small woman with a glossy yellow face and a frizz of black hair bristling with imitation tortoise-shell pins. |
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| The tortoise-shell used to be called, in England, the calimanco. |
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| She put on her great round spectacles with tortoise-shell rims and sat down to her letter. |
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