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  • A hole was chopped through the engine room floor, and a Kanaka heaved bilge-water over the cylinders, while Grief continued to souse running parts in oil.

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • But in the place we were now in, I had to take his word for it, for it was all as black as bilge-water.

    The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

  • I think "bilge-water" mark would be a more accurate description.

    Poll: Obama Takes Narrow Lead In Virginia 2009

  • It's a great sorrow that a steel-mill worker in Ohio who once worked in a steel mill but doesn't work at anything now because the local steel mill is gone has had his brain so thoroughly washed with right-wing bilge-water that he thinks if low taxes are good for the rich they must be good for him too.

    Dan Agin: Our Baloney Way of Life 2008

  • Now raise yer mugs to winsome wench Kia M., whose bilge-water Wreck here is evidence of some focsal swab drinking up and yo-ho'ing a bit too much while on duty.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jen 2008

  • Now raise yer mugs to winsome wench Kia M., whose bilge-water Wreck here is evidence of some focsal swab drinking up and yo-ho'ing a bit too much while on duty.

    Dead Men May Tell No Tales, But Wrecked Cakes Sure Do. Jen 2008

  • Below, in addition to the close overpowering odour of cabins without any ventilation, the smell of the bilge-water was sufficient in itself to produce nausea.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • Some bilge-water lubber has changed the update button to call this a Captain's Log.

    Tuesday roadkill report jhetley 2006

  • Some a little weaker, some with more bilge-water in it, or a trifle of a dash from the midden.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • As for the smell, if I may be allowed to judge from my own organs, it is exactly that of bilge-water; and the saline taste of it seems to declare that it is nothing else than salt water putrified in the bowels of the earth.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

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