"Soakage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a melancholy neighbourhood. A few graves that had been robbed were open, forming pitfalls for the unwary; other yawning holes had discovered ancient tombs by the soakage of a recent heavy shower, which had washed in the roof and exposed the cavity. We passed a small mosque where there is the tomb of a saint many feet below the level of the surface, and we shortly came in view of the salt lake about ...
— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker |
