The effect of this alternate expansion and contraction is often strikingly manifest in tropical countries: some rocks being gradually disintegrated, and crumbling into grit and sand; others becoming cracked, and either Exfoliating or breaking up all over their surface into small angular fragments.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Here and there, sleepy faces blinked out from amid the Exfoliating sections, criss-crossed by relaxing lengths of dew-soaked rawhide.
"The Thing in the Attic"
James Benjamin Blish
Her cool intelligence soon detected the traces of a peevish or stubborn temper, and of a natural inertia, perpetually combated, however, by the spiritual energy of a new and other self Exfoliating from the old; a self whose acts and ways she watched, sometimes with the held breath of fascination, sometimes with a return of shrinking or fear.
"Lady Rose's Daughter"
Mrs. Humphry Ward