The tree was not decayed to the top of the trunk; the rain, therefore, could not leak to the center, but in order to be protected completely, it was sufficient to raise and prop bark above both openings in such manner that it should form two eaves.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
All your brains seem to leak out your mouth.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
The leak securely patched, we pushed off for the land ice.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook