It was very near hatching time, when the baby dragons would crack their mottled shells, and stagger forth to choose their lifetime companions.

In seconds it formed a mottled blue-green-black shell, and as if bazooka-shot, it exploded through the ceiling of the room, showering them with plaster and bits of lath.

She brushed away enough sand to expose the mottled shell of a hardening fire lizard egg.

The golden sparkle of the transporter effect faded quickly, exposing a mottled, greenish-brown shell about the size of an adult Horta.

One pot was set slightly apart from the others and, lifting the lid, Piemur scraped enough sand away to see the mottled shell before he covered it carefully over.

Tim Harvey (right), director of the Sea Turtle Foundation, and a colleague help a stranded turtle on her way Harvey has spotted a large turtle, its mottled grey-green shell looking just like an algae-covered boulder, stranded on the beach.

He had dressed more and viler sores than he troubled to remember, and discovered live hearts and vigorous minds within the mottled shells he tended.

According to these myths, the Jebuti (land turtle) obtained its mottled shell in a fall to earth as it attempted to reach the heavens with the help of an eagle in order there to play a flute at a celebration.

He'd been stroking the three eggs whose mottled shells he fancied contained bronzes.

He also described that tahu sumedang is light brown, mottled shell, crunchy, and tasty.