To what extent this tiny soaker is possessed of such a beak may be inferred from the amount of moisture with which he manages to inundate himself, which has all been withdrawn from the stem upon which he has fastened himself, and finally exuded from the pores of his body.
"My Studio Neighbors"
William Hamilton Gibson
I'll do a day's work agen you or any fat young soaker of your age.
"Major Barbara"
George Bernard Shaw
Jonson's friendship seems to have acted as a forcing-house on the literary faculties of his friends, and it is quite as possible that, if Randolph had lived, he would have become a steady-going soaker or a diligent but not originally productive scholar, as that he would have produced anything of high substantive and permanent value.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury