But erelong the greater specific gravity of the sea-water forces off large segments from the terminal front of the ice, which float away as icebergs.
"Geology"
James Geikie
As the stipe elongates the veil separates from the stipe as a ring, and then, as the pileus expands, it is broken quite regularly into short segments which become arranged regularly around the margin of the pileus in the form of the letter V, which gives a beautiful appearance to this stage of the plant.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
For even while Sir John has begun to think out the composition and the technical details of the subject which the Council has determined, and is scheming maybe in his own mind how best he may arrange his figures so that when he draws them the heads will not come across a join on the wood-block where its segments are screwed together; or, again, how so to arrange an exceptionally elaborate subject that Mr. Swain may still have it ready for engraving in good time on the Friday evening, the attention of the Staff is now turned to the "Cartoon junior"-the second cartoon-to which for some years Mr. Linley Sambourne has been giving some of the finest and most ingenious work of his life.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann