She cropped the young grass that showed vivid green blades about the water barrel, and was nourished by the drips from the roof spouts and leakages from the barrel itself.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Whichever way he faced it, and no matter how carefully thought out were the plans that Minks devised, these leakages cropped up and mocked him.
"A Prisoner in Fairyland"
Algernon Blackwood
You had better keep wash-tubs and pails handy and don't be ketched out without rubber boots, and keep your eye on leakages in the ground as well as govermuntal and financial affairs.
"Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife"
Marietta Holley