Sharpe, waiting his turn, could smell bilge water, salt and tar.

"They will have been ruined by bilge water!"

Even if we knew who to trust, we have bilge water for proof.

His only answer was a great splat of bilge water that almost drowned his group.

Just then the up-angle increased dramatically and the bilge water began pouring in.

He pulled the crank again and slumped exhausted into the oily bilge water.

"Nothing back there but a couple of sump pumps and some bilge water."

It was fixed, except for a little bilge water.

She lay on a wooden grate, smelling bilge water below.