| 1. | But hunters depleted them to satisfy the demand for tortoise shell items.
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| 2. | The trim looked like tortoise shell instead of the expected wood.
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| 3. | He also made the traditional tortoise shell picks the same way.
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| 4. | Tortoise shell was rare, expensive, and had a tendency to break.
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| 5. | In 1651 Courland bought tortoise shells, tropical birds and their feathers.
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| 6. | "I'm 45, " he says, peering through rectangular tortoise shell glasses.
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| 7. | Also uncovered at Jiahu, Watt said, were pictograms, signs carved on tortoise shells.
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| 8. | My grandmother preferred heavy barrettes made of brushed metal or imitation tortoise shell.
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| 9. | On the floor were stone slabs, tortoise shells and various ceramics.
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| 10. | For lounging about the house, she might wear tortoise shell.
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