A little leak will sink a great ship.

A very slight leak can be heard a long way off by its peculiar whistling sound.

"'It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak; She ran upon no rock.

You've explained and explained, but how a plumber's calling here to fix a laundry leak is to rebuke the administration at Washington is still far beyond me.

No time was lost in vain regrets, however; but all hands went to work to get the schooner into shallow water again, and to look further for the principal leak.

A tiny leak in the tank had allowed some gasoline to drip into the bottom of the chassis, or passenger carrier.

The night, both drear and dark, Our poor devoted bark, Till next day, there she lay, In the Bay of Biscay O! Now dashed upon the billow, Our op'ning timbers creak; Each fears a wat'ry pillow, None stop the dreadful leak!

When the young man, whom he called his amiable tenant, had acquainted him with the motive of his visitthe leak in the zinc roof of the little pavilion at Janvillehe at once consented to let the local plumber do any necessary soldering.

The dilatory manner in which the seamen performed the duty was quickened, however, as the rod ascended, and the well-known signs of a formidable leak met their eyes.

Coppersmiths staunch the edges of their plates and rivets by means of a cement formed of pounded quicklime, with serum of blood, or white of egg; and in copper boilers such a substance may be useful in stopping the impalpable leaks which sometimes occur, though Roman, cement appears to be nearly as effectual.