The storm-tossed and water-logged boat, lodged between jutting rocks, was reversed that it might dry in the sun, but the weary voyagers who traditionally peopled the Malay Archipelago remained in the lotus-eating land, and the disused "Ark" or Prau, Fossilizing through the ages, became a portion of the peaks whereon it rested.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
I might almost dare to parody Mr. Webster's words in speaking of Hamilton, to describe what Mr. Gushing did for the solemn rows of back volumes of our honored old Review which had been long Fossilizing on our shelves: "He touched the dead corpse of the 'North American,' and it sprang to its feet."
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
Between the trenches the earth was torn and tortured, as though some sudden Fossilizing process, in its moment of supreme agony, had fixed it thus.
"The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill"
Winston Churchill