Sometimes, also, great masses of rock, often miles in extent, get loosened by the dissolving action of subterranean water, and crash downwards into the valleys.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Motionless he gazed on that fair face, on which every dream was reflected as the shadows of dissolving clouds on the calm surface of a lake; sorrow, anxiety, then hope!
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
He can still, if he pleases, evoke those as these, and Mr. Browning proceeds to show it by calling up a series of dissolving views representing another "walk."
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr