The half-dried mud clung to the goat skin in a curious pattern of broken and layered ridges that were partly crushed together wherever their broken edges collided and overran one-another as a result of the escape of water beneath the muddy leather, which Si'Wren had taken to quench her thirst.
"Si'Wren of the Patriarchs"
Roland Cheney
layered veins had petered out, were exhausted, empty.
"Master of the Moondog"
Stanley Mullen
Beyond the barrier, starlight revealed a cluster of rounding tombstones layered with white.
"Ghost Beyond the Gate"
Mildred A. Wirt