Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship.
1A grievous stench from foul bilge water poisoned the close, heavy air.
2He saw Adam and remarked, 'That coffee -like damned bilge water.'
3Can all that bilge water really not be pumped out of the ship?
4This cunning, evocation of smells, jute, bilge water, the warm oils of the engine room?
5All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle.
6Pure bilge water, an old salt might say.
7She could detect stale sweat, bilge water, diesel oil, burned lubricants, various forms of mildew and mold.
8The Web is like that; pages and pages of stinky bilge water for every molecule of precious matter.
9Both ideas stank like bilge water.
10Then he glanced upward, where two treecats waited impatiently, and felt the smile run away like bilge water.
11Presently the odor of tar, bilge water, tobacco and rum warned him that his expected visitor was approaching.
12She'd had no way of knowing in advance whether it would be awash with unspeakably nasty bilge water.
13He ducked down behind the shield, practically shoving his face into the bilge water, just as the shafts struck home.
14I pitied the poor fellows confined to the narrow limits of her dark hold, redolent of bilge water and other foul odours.
15He leant back and puffed great clouds into the air, filling the small den with an odour suggestive of bilge water and cemeteries.
16Often and often I've known the whole ship's company get no better fare than that, with little better than bilge water to drink.
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