The calcined stone-work of the tower on the left, from top to bottom, has assumed a strange colour like that of baked flesh, and the saints, still standing upright in rank on the cornices, have been Decorticated, as it were, by fire.
"War"
Pierre Loti
There is a rustic bench, much roiled by the birds, and Decorticated and split by the weather, near the little gate.
"John Bull's Other Island"
George Bernard Shaw
I had occasional losses from the latter causes: once in the night when a cow was thrown on her back into a deep brick manger; and once when a small piece of sacking, part of a Decorticated cotton-cake bag, was somehow mixed in with the food, and induced internal inflammation.
"Grain and Chaff from an English Manor"
Arthur H. Savory