So they're sending fellows to pump all the bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Prey]

Water three feet deep sloshed around in the bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tai-Pan]

The ferryman was lying like a log in his own bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

They pulled the ballast out of the bilges of the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

And don't stick them in the bilges where they'll rust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Order War]

"This the lad's going to keep your bilges dry, is it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

The bilges were rising, bringing their stink with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Destiny]

See if you can put a martini together while I pump bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clear and Present Danger]

The water flooded right through the galley then into the bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Spirit] Reference

And I will watch in the bilges in case the boat should make water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

Hudson went down in the bunkers and cleared the ice from the bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference

Nefer picked up a dead fish from the bilges and threw it at his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

Finally I went to that back door and checked the bilges and the engine room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference

The impact ripped the ship's bottom open at the turn of her starboard bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

He released Mintaka so suddenly that she fell into the bilges of the felucca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

A common practice is the illegal cleaning of bilges and holding tanks at sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Penguin Rescue] Reference

He helped with moving ballast and made his way through bilges, looking for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

He climbs out of the bilges and back forward and up to the engine compartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Engineer]

I offered to take the wheel, and Bruce gallantly set to work bailing the bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Spirit] Reference

His stomach clenched tight, and not just because of the foul smell of the bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

He looks at the small pump in the bilges and the narrow steam line that runs to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Engineer]

We can stow it just above the bilges, replace some of the ballast, and sell it in Hamor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wellspring of Chaos]

He waited until I'd finished the litany, then looked at me as if my bilges were leaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [between silk and cyanide]

Not his, no — their submarine never needed to pump bilges, or so the engineers claimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joint Operations]

The pumps had stopped, and Sharpe could hear the gurgle of water slopping into the bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

The carpenters sounded the bilges again and reported that the hull timbers had been rotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

He has closed all the doors and hatches on the Black Diamond, and checked and pumped the bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Engineer]

If an urgent decision has to be taken the bilges are no place for the commanding officer to be. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Andreas]

If you don't pump the bilges of ships and barges often enough, they will be slower and harder to navigate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Sabotage Field Manual] Reference

Myrelle isn't the only one who will try to stuff me in the bilges if they think I've overstepped my place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

The merchantmen had to be prepared for the delicate teas: the holds repainted and the bilges cleaned and made wholesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tai-Pan]

Banged against the iron decks, bilges choked with coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference

Yet the mildewed cupboards still smell like the bilges of a Crimean steam-packet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

In it, there is an old man living a brutal life in the bilges of an old oil tanker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference

The USS Obama, certified as unsinkable a year ago, is taking on water in its bilges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

• Drain all water from boats, motors, bilges, live wells, etc. before leaving a boat landing.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference