All at once there was a loud, ringing, echoing blow upon the rock, as the boat approached close to the side, and Mr Temple struck it sharply with his hammer, for one mark had gone and the water was Lipping and lapping fast towards the other.
"Menhardoc"
George Manville Fenn
If, during these subterranean disturbances, the atoll did subside, the downward movement must have been very small, as we must conclude from the fields of dead coral still Lipping the surface of the lagoon, and from the breakers on the western shore not having yet regained the line of their former action.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles
The tide had long since turned; it was rising; slowly and continuously it was Lipping nearer and nearer-slowly but with certainty was it coming; and I perceived all this!
"The Boy Tar"
Mayne Reid