"Lap up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... round, leaving no straggled suburb, scarce so much as a house, outside. Compact and close stand the dwellings of the modern city as those of ancient Tenochtitlan, whose site it occupies, though the waves of Tezcuco and Xochimilco no longer lap up to its walls. ...
— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid |
