These pavement cells are fastened on the basement membrane much as the kernels of corn grow on a cob; only, instead of there being but one layer, as on a cob of corn, there are a dozen or fifteen of them, one above the other, each one Dovetailing into the row below it, as the corn kernels do into the surface of the cob.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
But by Dovetailing, as it were, all the formations known to us, we are enabled to form a more or less complete series of rocks arranged in the order of their age.
"Geology"
James Geikie
But even when we attempt to fill up the blanks in our own series by Dovetailing with them the strata of foreign countries, there yet remain numerous breaks in the succession, pointing to the fact that the stony record is a very fragmentary one at the best.
"Geology"
James Geikie