I thought you ran a magazine that worked to put a stop to the kind of bilgewater this high priestess of blather spews out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

The Strategic Counsel is behind this bilious bilgewater?.    From Wordnik.com.  [catapulting the propaganda] Reference

At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an “aqueous matter” resembling bilgewater.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

He is evidently an actual, real water sailor who learned his nautics within the smell of bilgewater and the open sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference

I would judge that it was built to do the same thing when bilgewater or seawater seeped into the crate when we were at sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordermaster]

Petric also spent a great deal of time talking about how he was going to prevent the incursion of rats, cats, bilgewater, and invasive plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Three times a day the three of them sit down to eat at that table, in that floating house that smells of bilgewater and foot cream and baklava.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory Wall] Reference

Silence, and Jayve knew Mad was lying in the bilgewater of his own dinghy just beyond the thin line of runway lights that Jayve glimpsed through the rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

By the end of that month, Theseus reported bilgewater leaking into her feed tanks, Endymion declared urgent need for engine repairs, and Crescent, the flagship, developed a leaky condenser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

These penguins have been caught in smaller, unreported “mystery” spills, or have swum through the oil-contaminated ballast and bilgewater illegally dumped into the ocean by passing ships.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Penguin Rescue] Reference

And soused them in the bilgewater, and served them to him raw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference

Typical bilgewater from the transparently left-wing media cheerleaders!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an "aqueous matter" resembling bilgewater.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference

Well, the IDiots think Feb. 12 is the day for treating rank bilgewater as equal with science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

He took a level tumblerful of whisky every morning before he put his clothes on -- "to sweeten his bilgewater," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference

But by thunder, mateys, those are stagnant bilgewater compared to the swashbucklin†™ tales of the †™ 09 Legislature!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference

The stuffiness about him was the stuffiness of bed curtains, and not the stuffiness of the midshipmen's berth with its compound smell of stale humanity and stale bilgewater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy]

Not only that, they are also freeloading hitchhiker degenerates, who have spread to conquer all the oceans of the world by riding undetected in the bilgewater of human shipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

Remember, too, that we are all sailors, accustomed from our cradles to the ocean; while yonder Spaniards are mainly soldiers and landsmen, qualmish at the smell of bilgewater, and sickening at the roll of the waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Could he not find room enough on the whinstone, to tell the folks of the village how he played the devil among the dons, burning their fingers when they would put thumbscrews upon us, punching them in the weasand as a blacksmith punches a horse-shoe, and throwing them overboard like bilgewater?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk] Reference

Some person or persons invisible directed him to the male urinal erected by the cleansing committee all over the place for the purpose but after a brief space of time during which silence reigned supreme the sailor, evidently giving it a wide berth, eased himself closer at hand, the noise of his bilgewater some little time subsequently splashing on the ground where it apparently awoke a horse of the cabrank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

It was slimy, greasy with bilgewater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

Or pure bilgewater in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch (June 2009) -- Obama v. Clinton (Second Term)] Reference

"Therefore, we can pump out all this bilgewater about how conservatives & conservatism has lost.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

However far you travel – Ethiopia, in Rimbaud's case – "you never leave", and McGuinness reads the working landscape in the light of the poems: "barges/slip through bilgewater with rooftile cargoes/of Ardennes Ardoise: slates bound into sheaves,/books with blackboard pages and all the boats/were floating libraries and all the letters spelled azure//or, after rain, erasure, which soon became its synonym.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jilted City by Patrick McGuinness] Reference