| 单词 | bilge |
| 例句 | He rubbed the side of his nose and tilted his head down, pretending to be very interested in the bilge at the bottom of the boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Cluny was a bilge rat; the biggest, most savage rodent that ever jumped from ship to shore. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “And I don’t want to hear another word about this dream from either one of you. I’ve got a man on my staff to listen to disgusting bilge like this.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well,” said the Warden, “Pel the preppy can still clean the bilge.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z You’ll come by no indulgence in our house; kicked down into a ship’s bilge, out to sea you go, and nothing saves you. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the bottom of the ship and the small fish swimming alongside the bilge drains. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Haukelid led the way down ladders to a hatch leading to the bilge—the ship’s lowest compartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the squall struck whining from the west, with gale force, breaking both forestays, and the mast came toppling aft along the ship’s length, so the running rigging showered into the bilge. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I been bailing Rose for months, getting up before dawn to pump out the bilge and keep her floating. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z With each dip and plunge of the boat, Worsley swooped the pot up in the air lest their precious hoosh go slopping into the bilges. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But when I hop aboard and crawl into the bilge to look, the boat is dry inside. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Stone-dead she dropped into the sloshing bilge the way a tern plummets; and the sailors heaved her over as tender pickings for the seals and fish. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits had been frightened by what had happened to Acorn and to the doe, and remained squatting miserably, half in and half out of the bilge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The guard pointed to the hatch leading to the bilge, and said, “No problem.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A stagnant bilge along the lower bulkhead filled with wet papers and trash. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Down in the bilge I lay, pulling my sea cloak over my head, while the rough gale blew the ships and rueful crews clear back to Aiolia. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "Let's not talk. Talking's all bilge. I'm going away from you, and then Michael's coming back." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z What a lot of bilge I could think up at night. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z To the first honoree, he announces, “Well, here’s your book. Looks rather bilge to me from a glance at the title page, but, such as it is, here you are.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Stevie Wonder was no exception to the general rule that you can't produce brilliant tunes without producing some utter bilge too. Old music: Stevie Wonder – Visions 2013-03-14T07:00:00Z This bilge was danced by the Joffrey Ballet. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-10-28T23:41:39Z All the jibber jabber about public education these days seems to be based solely on idle speculation, memories of a Golden Age and the bilge that the LA Times publishes in lieu of objective journalism. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z But absent any real dramatic conflict, it’s all as soggy as a waterlogged bilge. Movie Review: ‘Backwards,’ With Sarah Megan Thomas, Collegiate Rower 2012-09-20T23:01:10Z Turns out it was the bilge pump vacuuming up excess water. In the British Virgin Islands I learned to sail — for my father, while there was still time 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z In collections from Rag & Bone to Giorgio Armani, there was a bilge of chore jackets and other plain styles based on workwear. On the Runway Blog: At Men’s Fashion Week, Back to Babbitt 2013-06-28T14:49:17Z But it actually is a Spanish expression, “of where the sea goes”; while the Spanish never settled this area, they would empty their bilges so the ocean would wash away their effluence. Style Invitational: Give it to us straight 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Other people will do whatever is necessary to avoid the bracing onslaught of what my wife once called bilge water. Manzanilla Sherry: Singular, Saline and So Polarizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The ferry, painted in blue, yellow and red stripes, required constant plunging of the bilge on our short trip to Ometepe, apparently to keep the vessel from sinking. | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z It was a place where men lived hard and lean, ran trotlines and considered bilge water a beverage. When Hemingway Was a Young Fisherman in Michigan 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Rigging piracy strike colors Spanish Main long boat bilge cog. Prod-5806 Test 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Every once in a while with Twitter, you find something that breaks through the bilge and recrimination. The Acrobatic Artwork That Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Whenever things are going wrong in my life, I press play and let this non-stop barrage of excruciating disco bilge remind me that other people have it worse. Reboot regrets: the TV revivals that should never have happened 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z But if that's the sort of bilge with which Weird Tales wants to spray its readers, I shan't ask for a subscription for Christmas. Racism row novel Revealing Eden falls at every hurdle 2012-08-23T09:55:46Z If Trump could ever credibly deny that he was not fomenting violence by his bilge, he lost that excuse on Jan. 6, 2021. Opinion: Trump’s words can incite violence. Why don't more Americans care? 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Chief Engineer Roberto Cayabyab Penaflor admitted to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships for knowingly discharging untreated oily bilge water directly from the tanker into the sea, federal prosecutors said. Shipping company ordered to pay $2.25M after discharging oily bilge off Rhode Island 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Fadich worked the bilge pumps till he was “blue in the face” just to keep the vessel above water. Fish tales come true on Ballard’s legendary wooden boat the Emancipator 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Before long, water filled the base of the boat, the bilge pump grinding in a constant whir as it tried to keep up. A Small Boat, a Vast Sea and a Desperate Escape From Russia 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z “I’m just thrown away here — a nobody,” the sailor who was assigned to clean the bilge said in an interview. Recruited for Navy SEALs, Many Sailors Wind Up Scraping Paint 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Emily Bell of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism worried that readers might be deluged with "bilge". New chatbot has everyone talking to it 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The bilge water was not processed through required pollution prevention equipment, and the illegal discharges were not recorded in the vessel’s oil record book, as required by law, prosecutors said. Shipping company ordered to pay $2.25M after discharging oily bilge off Rhode Island 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z In addition to the boat and a paddle, other basic essentials include a life jacket, whistle, manual bilge pump and spray skirt. What you need to know to take a sea kayak on Puget Sound (namely, to get out of the frigid water) 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z She urged measures such as requiring fishers and riverboat operators to bleach boat hulls, bilges, and wells after passing through an affected area. Golden mussels are devastating South American rivers. The Amazon may be next 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z It is oppressively dull work, but at least it isn’t the bilge. Recruited for Navy SEALs, Many Sailors Wind Up Scraping Paint 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The bilge pumps were knocked out of operation when the transmission failed. House lawmakers press for answers after deadly Marines training accident 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday issued an airworthiness directive for certain Boeing Co 787 airplanes, asking for inspection of the jets following reports of torn decompression panels in the bilge area. FAA issues airworthiness directive for 222 Boeing 787 planes 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Sailors of yore sang to pass the time and to coordinate their efforts in hoisting sails and anchors, and manning the bilge pumps. Sea shanties are having a moment amid isolation of pandemic 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Even the bilge - below the hold and the waterline, and no more than 60cm high - was packed with the skeletons of adolescents. 1,000 lost on one boat - this woman hopes to name them 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z The bilge pump had trouble keeping up and then failed. Perspective | In 1955, a Chesapeake Bay sightseeing boat was pounded to bits by a hurricane 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z In the meantime, the rest of us are about to go on quarantine lockdown, forced to sustain ourselves on whatever mediocre bilge Netflix has put out this week. The Hunt depicts elites hunting the poor for sport. The 'satire' feels a little too real | Jessa Crispin 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Some suggest bilge water from passing freighters could be aggravating its spread in Turks and Caicos. Turks and Caicos corals face major threat 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships requires oily bilge water to be treated before being released into the sea. 2 shipping companies plead guilty to hiding oil pollution 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z ‘Ugggh. Howard cooked his fish in the microwave, that bilge rat!’ Voters fired up, but Dems keep the edge 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Such is the ship’s condition that some of her rigging is still in place, while her wooden capstan and bilge pump are also visible. Stunningly well preserved 500-year-old Columbus-era shipwreck revealed: 'It’s almost like it sank yesterday' 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The highway patrol reminded boaters in a tweet to allow at least four minutes "after fueling & before starting the engine to remove gas vapors in the bilge." Five injured from boat explosion on Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z “Water was always an afterthought for producers,” said Christensen, who stretches him arm and draws a 360-degree arc to show the locations of lines carrying oilfield bilge to the site. Wastewater - private equity’s new black gold in U.S. shale 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z For those who were seeing the same bilge online, The Enquirer’s headlines and stories may have increased their doubts about the Democratic nominee. More Powerful Than a Russian Troll Army: The National Enquirer 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Six bilge pumps sat inside on the ground floor, ready to push out the heavy rains and possible flood surge that the outer bands of Hurricane Florence are forecast to deliver. To stay or go? Millions in hurricane’s path must decide 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Coast Guard says it found evidence a Seattle-based fishing boat discharged oil and bilge waste overboard. Coast Guard finds evidence of oil discharge by fishing boat 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z His campaign ads featured him staring into the camera while droning racist bilge. Fringe candidates and House Republicans fare poorly 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “It’s all washing about, like the bilge in the hold of a ship.” I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z And the Jones victory is about a rising tide of Americans who won’t swallow the bilge President Trump is pushing. Opinion | Doug Jones’s victory should make Trump nervous 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z The vessel was leaky, so the bilges were constantly filling with a mixture of oil and seawater. Fisherman convicted of discharging oily waste 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z There’s something about Christmas – maybe it’s the Dickensian tradition of intergenerational reflection, or maybe it’s because people will buy any old bilge if it’s tinselly enough – that just screams “harrowing displays of artistic theft”. Rest in no peace: the creepiest duets with dead singers 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z And because the bilge system is inoperable, large amounts of water can't be pumped out and could cause the ship to sink to the lagoon floor. Urgent repairs to Queen Mary could cost $300 million, experts say 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Coast Guard officials say samples of the oil were taken along with samples from the bilges of several nearby fishing vessles to be sent to a laboratory for comparison. Coast Guard investigates oil spill in New Bedford 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z After consuming the ship’s cat, their uniform buttons and a leather bilge pump, and after the captain had retreated to his cabin clutching a pistol, the crew decided to draw lots. In Many Species, a Family Dinner Means Something Else 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z "Make sure your bilge works before you run five miles offshore and realize it's too late," Zack Sowder tweeted Tuesday night, along with two photos from the scene. California boys rescued after their boat capsizes off Florida Keys 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The performance of the bilge alarms remains under investigation. What sank the Alaska Juris? A leaking pipe may have started Washington trawler’s demise 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Sometimes bilge water can be discharged into the ocean but only after almost all oil is separated out. The $40m 'magic pipe': Princess Cruises given record fine for dumping oil at sea 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Recently we were checking a pipe in the bilge, the ship’s hull. A Ship Inspector Who Brings a Bit of the Barre to the Bilge 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z David Schneiderbeck, who owns Rizzo’s Garage, said he used to refer boat owners to Mr. Stackowitz, a mechanic known for his ability to coax bilge pumps and fuel lines back to life. A Small-Town Resident’s Secret for 48 Years: He Was a Fugitive 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The indictment says Bingham Fox owned the Native Sun and, as part of its dockside maintenance, ordered crew members to discharge oil and other bilge wastes overboard into the harbor and adjoining shorelines of Blaine. Fishing boat owner, captain indicted on pollution violations 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The pump kept clogging with debris from the bilge.” Fisherman dies, crew reeling after wave swamps boat 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z The documents also show illegal practices were found on four other Princess ships, including use of clean ocean water to fool onboard sensors that would otherwise detect dumping of improperly contaminated bilge water. The $40m 'magic pipe': Princess Cruises given record fine for dumping oil at sea 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The Coast Guard rescued three boaters from the ocean off Carlsbad on Thursday after their 19-foot boat began sinking and its bilge pumps failed. Coast Guard rescues three boaters from water off Carlsbad 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z They place a containment boom around the vessel and began the process of removing the oily bilge. Coast Guard helps remove petroleum from vessel 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z But officials say a search of the boat revealed an additional 28 lobsters in a hidden compartment in the bilge of the boat. Men charged with catching too many lobsters 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z In the 2005-6 race, he attempted to connect power to underwater bilge pumps before abandoning the sinking Spanish entry Movistar in the North Atlantic. After Crash in Volvo Ocean Race, a Team Shifts Its Focus and an Event Changes Its Rules 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The oily bilge waste comes from a ship’s engines and fuel systems. The $40m 'magic pipe': Princess Cruises given record fine for dumping oil at sea 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Workers also replaced bilge and fire pumps and 300 feet of planking. Mayflower II headed back to Plymouth, Massachusetts 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Since hitchhiking to the Great Lakes in the bilges of ocean-going ships, they have expanded virtually unchecked and are considered a major threat to waterways including Lake Erie. Will sturgeon ever come back to Lake Erie? 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Eventually, with the help of a confidential informant, investigators would learn of the ship’s multiple unreported engine failures and makeshift hose-and-barrel system for bilge water that discharged oily waste into the ocean. The Wreck of the Kulluk 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The North Korean crew sabotaged the ship's electrical system and bilge pumps after Panamanian investigators stopped the ship near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal on suspicion it was carrying drugs after leaving Cuba. Panama says North Korea ship in arms case paid fine, free to go 2014-02-08T19:43:27Z The crew sabotaged the ship's electrical system and bilge pumps after Panamanian investigators boarded the ship. Panama says Cuban weapons shipment 'without doubt' violated U.N. sanctions 2013-08-28T23:23:11Z The crew sabotaged the ship's electrical system and the bilge pumps, officials say, in a possible effort to scuttle the ship. North Korean ship was carrying sugar donation, Cuba told Panama 2013-07-19T23:38:49Z The two incinerators are rusting atop pillars in a bilge pit that has filled up with stagnant water because it was built without a drainage pipe. U.S. military faulted for burn-pit use 2013-04-25T04:01:00Z Getting your own core supporters to the polls ought to be enough to win it - if the candidates have the courage to forget all this middle-ground bilge. Viewpoint: Stop coddling dumb undecided voters 2012-10-01T23:19:34Z Several hundred, having fallen through a jagged rent in the ward-room floor, were lying, a sodden pulp, in the water that surged in the ship's bilges. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z An external bilge keel about 300 feet long and 25 inches deep was fitted along the bilge amidships. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z A little water flowed past the yacht, but it was plain that her bilge rested on the ground. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z A bilge injection is one in which the injection water is taken from the bilge, which may be done when the ship makes more water than the bilge pumps can get rid of. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Her extreme rolling, however, steadied by no sufficient sail, exposed her bottom, and several shots from the Hussar went through her very bilge. Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. 2012-03-23T02:00:32.397Z The valves in connection with the forward bilge and ballast suctions were placed in the firemen's passage, the water-tight pipe tunnel extending from No. 6 boiler room to the after end of No. 1 hold. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z She's gone; cut down to the bilge and sunk in six fathoms. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Captain Stokes found the vessel lying on the rocks, bilged, and an utter wreck. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z If, however, the bottom is not kept painted and gets damp, and more particularly from bilge water, it will corrode rapidly, and the boiler must be lifted for examination. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z "I've quite a few tons of coal to trim, and there's a pile of old grease he could clean out of her bilges." Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Pipes were also led from this steam supply to the pumps in the engine room, which were connected to the bilges throughout the ship. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z Although he did not fall far, the ladder struck the ground with a crash and he lay down in the gloom under the tug's bilge. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z It lay still beneath her hove-up bilge, giving up a hot, sour smell, and Jefferson, who came out of the skipper's room, touched Austin as he gazed at it. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z This check valve should be so constructed that its amount of lift can be regulated and as much of the bilge water used for injection as the circumstances may require. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Fortunately, the ship soon made a sort of cradle for herself in the sand, and lay on her starboard bilge. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z Besides the main sea suctions, two of the pumps had direct bilge suctions from the turbine room and the other two from the reciprocating-engine room. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z The Parker put on full speed, found an oilslick where the submarine had evidently been pumping its bilges, and dropped a barrage of sixteen depth charges. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z She lay with deck unpleasantly slanted and one bilge in the mire, a rusty, two-masted steamer, with the blistered paint peeling off her, and the burnt awnings hanging from their spars. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z In the case of surface condensers, the bilge water is drawn off by the circulating pump and used to supplement the main circulating water. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Although there was a bilge pump onboard, it was not powerful enough to save the boat from capsizing, Mr. Lynch, 70, said. Bronx Houseboat Capsizes on Westchester Creek 2012-01-13T03:10:06Z This pump was also connected to the bilges, except in the case of three of the boiler rooms, where three of the ballast and bilge pumps were placed. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z On joining her, he saw that it was a finely-built canoe with a hole in one bilge she was examining. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Setting his heavy shoulders under her bilge, he gave a mighty upward heave. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z So that altogether one-eighth of the total was lost to the shipper, and there was a good perquisite to the skipper or mate in pumping the molasses out of the bilges. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z I can tell you the rumor is full of bilge, bunkum and hogwash. Marion Barry says Redskins will rise like Jesus 2011-11-21T17:19:50Z The pumps in each case had direct bilge suctions as well as a connection to the main bilge pipe, so that each boiler room might be independent. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z The donkey-engines were started—not with the idea of ejecting bilge water, but for the purpose of pumping a copious supply of salt water into the improvised tank. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Then it drained down into the bilge without, apparently, greatly affecting her buoyancy. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z He caught hold of it, pulled as at a horizontal bar, came up like a cork, and easily wormed half his person between thwart and bilge. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z A few more blows of that kind would crush in her bilge, but Grahame set his teeth and clung grimly to his wheel. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Two ballast pumps were placed in the reciprocating-engine room, with large suctions from the bilges direct and from the bilge main. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z On the starboard hand was a smaller hole close to the bilge keel, while there was a slight fracture on the same side eighteen inches from the stern-post. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z They skip TV ads and put their faith in customer reviews rather than marketing bilge. Schumpeter: Hidden Persuaders II 2011-09-21T18:17:42Z Look at her bilge, her lines, her bows, her jibboom, with its smart and business-like curve. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z As she swung with the smooth undulations, blocks clattered, booms groaned, and the water in her bilges swirled noisily to and fro. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z One bilge pump was placed in the turbine room and one of the hot salt-water pumps had a connection from the bilge main pipe for use in emergency. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z They too were reluctant to go aft, where, by removing the stern-sheet gratings, they could deal more effectually with the water in the bilges. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z It passed; and the light released from the sky streamed over the “Capella” again as your side of her lifted in the roll, the sea falling down her iron wall as far as the bilge. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z His funny little craft with its inner-tube bilge keels, no less than the bobbing of that football life-preserver, lent touches to the picture that could have been blocked in by no other media. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z She wants some pitch run into her bilge seams, too, and won't be ready for an hour or longer. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z A double line of bilge main pipe was fitted forward of No. 5 boiler room and aft of No. 1. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z She had not altered her position, except for lying well over on her port bilge keel. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z This, however, was not due to a leak but to the fact that her cargo had been trimmed so as to throw her on her bilge and thus lighten her draught. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z That water was roaring out through the vents, or seeping into the lower bilge. The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z Those steamers, it seemed to me, had big bilge keels, for as the tide ebbed they did not heel over. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z All overhead discharge from the circulating pumps, ballast pumps, bilge pumps, etc., were below the deep load line, but above the light line. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z While the Indians were engaged in this operation the Wireless Officer, handing Olive the tiller, made a hasty yet comprehensive survey of the bilges. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z But she was so badly bilged, and the water was gaining so fast, that her hours were numbered. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z But when she started so proudly the yacht rolled unexpectedly and Amy, screaming for help, went sliding along the deck to where Dr. Stanley and Burd were pumping away to clear the bilge. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z "I kept my silence for weeks and weeks and weeks of ludicrous bilge being put out there... to dupe and scare the British people," he tells the . Battle over AV enters final stage 2011-05-01T04:26:18Z Two bilge pumps were also arranged to draw from bilges. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z Big drops chased one another along the slanted beams and fell with a splash into the lee bilge. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z She looked bluff and heavy in the bows and her bilges turned hard, but she walked over the water, and don't you forget it. Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders 2011-04-09T02:00:09.887Z The water the skipper and his helpers poured upon it raised the level of water in the bilge until Darry declared he feared the yacht would be water-logged. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z In my day we chewed hardtack and drank bilge water. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z There was a lot of scuffling and shouting of orders, accompanied by the clanking of the auxiliary motors actuating the bilge pumps. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z In a few minutes he reached the wreck, and found one bilge deeply embedded; but the opposite side was lifted up, and a broad strip of planking had been torn away. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Here’s the sort of man I should like to hold for five minutes head downwards in the bilge of a trench, writing on the Heroic Spirit in the Morning Post. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z An infected person, contaminated food or even a ship's bilge water could all carry the bacteria, Dowell said. Haiti's cholera part of old pandemic: CDC 2010-11-18T21:37:00Z He rose with his hands dripping bilge muck. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z It seems barely credible, readers, and if it were in any other organ than the good ol' Sun the Mill would counsel you to dismiss it as pungent bilge. Football transfer rumours: Pepe Reina or Shay Given to Arsenal? 2010-08-09T08:13:00Z Near him, a man with a rugged, weatherbeaten face was engaged in fitting a plank into the bilge of a hauled-up sloop. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z He read a list of findings that included problems with bilge pumps, cooling pumps, an alarm system related to the rig's hospital, and a panel on the bridge. Technician for Deepwater Horizon testifies that warning system disabled 2010-07-24T03:01:00Z The report has rocked the service to its bilges because it calls into question the way the Navy chooses, promotes and then monitors its handpicked skippers. Holly Graf: Was Female Navy Captain Victim of Sexism? 2010-03-11T17:30:00Z It's soft there, and he worked in over his bilge keel. H.M.S. —— She thumped terribly, and almost every sea was breaking entirely over us when a seaman exclaimed, "She is bilged, a plank has come up from her bottom." Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... The sand was well up her bilge, but she was holding together, and when I swam round to the open end of her there didn’t seem much in the way except the orlop beams. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The crews, without stopping to burn or bilge them, swam on shore, and the enemy took possession of the two galleys. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools Her passenger spent the night praying in the bilge; and as for her commander, he left no report. Where the Pavement Ends It rested on its bilge, after the manner in which the casks behind which I lay hidden were stowed. International Short Stories English Eustace, who had concealed himself in the bilge, was dragged out. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The jury rudder they have rigged won’t steer her well, and I don’t think the plates they’ve bolted on to her torn bilge will keep out much water if she gets straining hard. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z There was a bitter taste in my mouth from all the lies I'd told—all the bilge. The Old Martians As for the accident that had destroyed their own craft, he explained that Karloff, stooping to light a cigarette, had ignited some leaked gasoline in the bilge. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam At length the elevators ceased from troubling, and the supervisors from dilating in Platt Deutsch over the damage in the bilges. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Before the boat was righted by the sea Mr. Talbot was clinging to the bilge of the boat and I called him to go to the stern and there get up on the bottom. The Last Cruise of the Saginaw She is half as broad as she is long, with high bilge, and a sharp bottom; the very boat for these seas—wilt thou buy her?” Jan Vedder's Wife There was no answer, and tiring of the sport, Mr. Spokesly picked up the hurricane lamp and went down again to sound the starboard bilge. Command That was followed by a rubbing, jarring, grinding sensation along her starboard bilge, and a peak of dark-coloured ice glided past close alongside. Titanic If there was a stowage of stores, cleaning up of bilges, chipping and scaling of iron rust—well, here was mercantile Jack, who was used to that kind of work; who better for the job? Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The stench of bilge sickened us as the rising water in her hull forced up the heavy and fetid gases. The Portal of Dreams At the whistle of a squall these heaven-born mariners seize the tiller, and the �2,200 amateurs are knocked sprawling on the bilge. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) He looked over the side and tried to see if the engineer had succeeded in getting the pump on that bilge. Command A man with half an eye could have seen the scum of gasoline on the bilge in the cockpit. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club Number four—"the bulkhead is bulged in like the bilge of a cask, but that cement we put down last week has set pretty well, and the struts and braces should hold." Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Beguiled by the dangerous current that sets towards the seaboard of the Sa�ra, in a dark stormy night she had struck upon a sand-bank, got bilged, and sunk almost instantly among the breakers. The Boy Slaves There’s only the usual bilge in the sheet, nothing to telephone the fat slob about. Satan and the Comrades However," he went on, "we'll have another look at the bilges. Command He pulled out his pipe, filled it, unnoticed by Mr. Lavine, who was still trying to swab out the last of the bilge and gasoline, and scratched a match. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club Right under the bilge, and ungetatable, with all that rubble in th' holds. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war In the half-gale out of the west I note the smell of the shoals, a suggestion of bilge in the brine, not altogether pleasant. Old Plymouth Trails For fourteen hours we went on doing that, up to our shoulders in the bilge, the grease caking on us in a fresh layer every time we climbed out to get something in the store. Aliens Sixty francs for a quart of carbonated bilge and a racket like nothing on earth. Command The decision to use four bilge pumps is based upon the lack of drag in the keel of the hulls, which would prevent accumulation of bilge water at one end of the hull. Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran "In this connection," said Sir George Elliot, "I am informed that the Americans are likely to adopt Captain Hodgett's form of bottom for their new ships, which must give greater steadiness than bilge keels." Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... The ship lost way as it backed its sails and Jason fell from his precarious perch into the stinking bilge. The Ethical Engineer We raised her pretty fast, and the island after her; and made out she was hard aground, canted on her bilge, and had her ens’n flying, union down. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) It is not pleasant, understand, down there, where bilge collects and rats run riot, and grease is rolled into filthy black balls, and the stench is intolerable. An Ocean Tramp I’m sick of drinking bilge, when I might be rolling in my coach, and I’m dog-sick of Jack Gaunt. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV Well, he’s dead now, he is—as dead as bilge; and who’s to sail this ship I don’t see. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) They breasted into the hollows like any sea-bird and lifted with every heave to shake the water from bilge to quarter. The Seiners He has done about a page and a half of it, and it's most awful bilge. Changing Winds A Novel N. Auxiliary petrol engine driving dynamo, bilge pumps, fire pumps and air compressor. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships The hulls, of wide bilge, painted white or blue, stretched away along the glaring shore, like big-bellied sailors lying on their backs and taking the sun. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The bilge water was new coldness on his drenched clothes. The Valor of Cappen Varra Although almost on her beam ends, her decks inclining landward, the strongly-built ship held steady in spite of the tremendous onslaughts of the seas along her bilge. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Black, who had been to sea before, decided that he caught the aroma of bilge water. Thurston of Orchard Valley "Then speak, in Heaven's name; or I certainly shall throw myself into the bilge water," Josephine says desperately. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces No sooner had he brought the war on the Saxon frontier to a successful conclusion than he descended again into Italy 'to purge the Roman bilge,' in the chronicler's strong words. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome The ship rolled till she was almost on her beam ends; Torbek braced himself with practiced feet, but Cappen went into the bilge again. The Valor of Cappen Varra A gasoline stove, carelessly left burning by one of that vessel's drunken crew, had been overturned by the shock of collision, and had fired the bilge. El Diablo No vessel of any great burthen, carrying guns, can enter or be wintered there, without incurring the risk of being bilged by the ice of the river Ochota, which flows into or forms the harbour. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 By this means the great water-sack was held in such a position that, although the contents might “bilge” about at their pleasure, not a drop could escape out either at the neck or elsewhere. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea We are cut down from rail to bilge; there is a hole in our side big enough to drive a coach and six through, and the water is pouring into her like a sluice!” Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure Well, he's dead now, he is—as dead as bilge; and who's to sail this ship, I don't see. Treasure Island Overall is that penetrating odor of the Far East, mingled with the smell of bilge water and the reek of thousands of sweating human beings. The Critic in the Orient Upon returning to the cove the lads had found the heavy craft lying on its bilge in the stiff bluish clay, with a ridge of jagged rocks cutting her off from the sea. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Its red bilge flung the spray aloft as it towed rapidly toward him. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good The ship had been forced much further up the beach than before, and she had now in her bilge above nine feet of water, which reached higher than the lower-deck beams. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage Clean out the bilge and make her a sweet ship.” The Young Alaskans on the Missouri If you don't pump the bilges of ships and barges often enough, they will be slower and harder to navigate. Simple Sabotage Field Manual The end of one cask stowed against the bilge of another. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The ship continued to beat on the rocks, and soon bilging, fell with her broadside towards the shore. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. And then the first pump sucked—sucked hoarsely and throatily—and another, and another—yet the mud clung tenaciously to the vessel's keel and bilges. Gold Out of Celebes This simple matter he managed so clumsily that he contrived to bilge the boat, necessitating the renewal of three timbers and a plank. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" This section has a form found in plans of some American freighting ships of 1815–1830, but with slightly slacker bilge. The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The air was foul below, reeking of the bilges, and the main room was incredibly filthy. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Only for an instant are their eyes upon it, before it is seen no more, having “bilged” and gone under, leaving but bubbles to mark the place of its disappearance. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure It is an old ship’s launch that has bilged, and either been abandoned as useless, or upturned to receive repairs. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The midsection was formed with moderately short and rising floor, round and easy bilge, and some tumble-home in the topside. The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The cabin floor was chockful of them; for the heat and confined bilge air had hatched all the eggs that were in the close and hot drawers. Humour of the North Most of her copper had been stripped off by Hayes, but later on I found all I wanted by crawling under the bilge, and prizing off a few undamaged sheets. The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 Driven then upon the coral reef, it bilges, is broken to pieces, when the fragments, as waifs, dance about, and drift far away over the foam-crested billows. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea It smells of tar, bacon, cheese, and cordage, blended with a suspicious odor of bilge water. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy All braces placed diagonally across the hold of any vessel, to support the bilge and prevent loose-working, are called pointers. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. In less than twenty minutes she was hopelessly bilged, and her decks swept by every sea. "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Our boat, very probably, had gone half her length on top of the edge of it, and was then washed off again after she had bilged; and the strong current had set us clear. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Her keel is on a coral bottom; her bilge caught upon its rough projections. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Had he not built her himself expressly, small, and of half-inch planking over the lightest of frames, with two bilge streaks to act as runners, and flat-bottomed that she should drag well over snow? Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers These are fitted inside of the bilge, to afford strength where iron, ores, and other heavy cargo are shipped. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. But one night it came on to blow again harder than ever; a tremendous sea rolled in, and the poor sloop was irretrievably bilged, and in a few days broke up altogether. The Three Midshipmen Their Bavarian was the first Atlantic liner entirely built of steel; their Parisian the first to be fitted with bilge keels; their Virginian and Victorian the first to use the turbine. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways “Well; up at a early hour next mornin’, we found the boat had drifted off seaward, an’ got bilged on the breakers. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea So rapidly was the liner moving, so abrupt her swoop to the right, that she leaned far over and showed them the red of her huge bilge. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Certain thick strengthenings on the inner and outer lines of the bilge, to secure the shiftings as well as bilge-keels. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Beguiled by the dangerous current that sets towards the seaboard of the Saara, in a dark stormy night she had struck upon a sand-bank; got bilged; and sank almost instantly among the breakers. The Boy Slaves However, on arriving at the island I found that she was hopelessly bilged, so we at once set to work to strip her of everything of value, especially her copper, which was new. John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish 1901 Then, when the weather is hot, there is the steam of heated oil wafted up from the engine-room, which, mingled with the smell of bilge, and perhaps cooking, is anything but agreeable or appetizing. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Remembering that the schooner was upside down and that the floor was over his head, the aperture he was starting work on would bring him nearest the bilge. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 The breadth of the ship astern from the tuck upwards: it is terminated by the counter above, by the bilge below, by the stern-post in the middle, and by the quarter on the side. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. He would believe that a mine could be pumped out as easily as a vessel’s bilge.” Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek In another instant she would be bilging helplessly among the sands of Africa, or would be on her course free and unimpeded for the shores of America! Ran Away to Sea She was bilged, but not badly, as far as they could see. Yorke The Adventurer Then at last it came alongside, and he crawled cautiously down the curve of the bilge and secured it. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Are employed to wedge off casks of liquids from each other, and steady them, in order that their bilges may not rub at sea, and occasion leaks. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. I rigged the little pump amidships and the pipe threw a full stream of bilge across the deck. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers About the same time Captain Purvis, while chasing a French ship, got his vessel on a ledge of rocks, where she was bilged. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 There appeared every probability that, when the tide became lower, the ship would fall over on her bilge and be destroyed. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold Mayo trod carefully down the bilge and clasped the mate's hand. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 A cask having a square piece sawn out of its bilge and lashed in a convenient place to hold water for present use. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. And it wasn’t bilge long, but came clear. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers Well, he’s dead now, he is—as dead as bilge; and who’s to sail this ship, I don’t see. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 “It matters not; salt or bilge water makes little difference,” returned the son with a smile. Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago Only the oval of the schooner's broad bilge showed above water, and the old Polly was so flat and tubby that their floating islet afforded only scant freeboard. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Knees brought in from side to side over the floor ceiling and kelson, to support the bottom, if bilged or weak, for heavy cargo. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. For awhile I had some hope that the stanchness of our vessel’s hull might enable us to cling to her till daylight, but she speedily bilged and began to fill. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver He was subsequently found dead, drowned in the bilge water. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Not that I was one who craved for wrack and bilge at my nose all the time. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn She lay with a slight list or inclination to larboard, but on the whole tolerably upright, owing to the corpulence of her bilge. The Frozen Pirate This, in marine architecture, is the third diagonal, terminating the length of the floors near the bilge of the ship, and bevellings are taken from it both forward and abaft. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It was mixed with bilge water and smelt horribly. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men A wash of water from the bilge sizzled over it and the steam arose in clouds. A Son Of The Sun The storm was now at its height, and the vessel rolled over on her bilge so violently that the lifeboat was more than once on the point of being crushed under her massive sides. The Lifeboat “There are worse smells than bilge water,” replied the captain. Peter Simple The space between the bilges of two casks stowed end to end. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The arrangement for baling out the bilge water is extremely laborious. Southern Arabia The barrel was filled with powder and furnished with several, generally five, sensitive primers, placed near together in that part of the bilge which was to float uppermost. The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. The captain told me that they were right down in the hold, and well above the chance of getting any bilge water upon them.” To The West The first lieutenant observed that it would be necessary to let water into the ship every morning, and pump it out, to avoid the smell of the bilge water. Peter Simple Two planks in her starboard bilge had been stove in, as had also a portion of her bow; and it seemed wonderful that she should have floated till she had reached the shore. Twice Lost Often and often I’ve known the whole ship’s company get no better fare than that, with little better than bilge water to drink. The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa He cast another fond look at her as she lay bilged on the cruel rocks. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley The boat was dashed to fragments and pressed under the ship’s bilge. Hurricane Hurry While the men were getting it out a sea broke on board, and, dashing it against the spars, drove in the starboard bilge, and at the same time washed two of the poor fellows overboard. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors The only way to do this was to creep under the bunkers among the bilge water, an unpleasant and dangerous task. The Three Admirals The cries of the wretched slaves, unaccustomed to the motion, reached our ears, while the tossing stirred up the bilge water and almost stifled us. The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa The vessel lay over on her bilge, with her deck partly turned towards the shore, the sea, after she struck, having driven her round. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure I pitied the poor fellows confined to the narrow limits of her dark hold, redolent of bilge water and other foul odours. Happy Jack and other Tales of the Sea However, just as we were launching the boat a sea struck her, and stove in two planks of the port bilge. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors Corporal, have they told off any hands yet to clear the bilge?” Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy She also lurched more to starboard, as if thrown on her bilge, the deck inclining to an angle of forty-five degrees. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land On emerging from the trap-door they turned sharp to the left, and made their way toward the bow along the tunnel-like passage between the ship’s bottom and the starboard bilge keel. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure For several days following her bilge pumps sent overboard a continuous stream of water and oil seepage. The Bird Study Book This manifold, connecting the pump with the bilges, was intended only for emergency use. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story After half-an-hour’s experience of this exhilarating labour, the petty officer sang out, “Spell ho!” and we left off the job, the pumps having sucked dry, and the bilge being thus clear for the day. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy All those allusions to the extraterrestrial was so much bilge. Ten From Infinity He found his own cabin, by the number on his ticket, groping through a long, dark corridor, which smelt of food and bilge water. A Soldier of the Legion The outside circumference of the bilge is sixty-four inches and the distance between the heads is twenty-six inches. Apple Growing In less than thirty seconds the last gallon of water in the bilges had been lifted and sent, rushing through the discharge, overboard. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The tides swirl, Pele-honua-mea o'ermounts them; The god rides the waves, sails about the island; The host of little gods ride the billows; 15Malau takes his seat; One bales out the bilge of the craft. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula It was carried by a corporal, who came cautiously down the ladder, lighting the footsteps of an officer who followed and held a handkerchief to his nose, for the smell of the bilge was overpowering. The Blue Pavilions The situation of the brig was safe enough as far as ocean and weather went; nothing could hurt her as she lay mud-cradled on her fat bilge. The Honour of the Flag The bilge-water reeked and rotted in the bilges, filling the whole ship with its indescribable stench. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. He may, if he will, go on a spiritual drunk now and then, and empty the stale bilges of his soul. A Book of Prefaces Some were lying on their bilge with the keel exposed, others were frantically casting their guns overboard and trying to get afloat again. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes The design of the hull is the concave bottom, square bilge type, developed for this particular service. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights But, shortly after midnight the brig, sailing quietly, grounded upon a coral shoal, fell over on to her bilge, and lay quiet. The Honour of the Flag The second ship made no attempt to engage: her crew ran her ashore, and deserted, leaving her bilged in shallow water. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Carrie's fur coat was flaring open and because of the quality of her attire down there where the bilge waters of the city-tide flow and eddy, stares followed her. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story A pump was connected with the cylinder cooling apparatus, designed to free the cockpit of bilge water, but the pump would not work. The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real Sulphuric acid mingling with salt water in the bilges produces a chlorine gas, which, as every one knows, is most deadly. Our Navy in the War The angle of the deck was considerable, but owing to the flat bilge of the whaler's bottom, not greater than the inclination of the deck of a ship under a heavy press of canvas. The Honour of the Flag An' when the brotherhood was pea-green with seasickness I goes down into the bilges with a big auger an' scuttles the ship. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates But I can't yet account for the acids left in the bilges. Great Sea Stories The bilges were washed out, the ship disinfected fore and aft, and a gang of men employed for some time to sweeten her up. South with Scott In the struggle Frenchy came near going overboard, but he fell into the bilge in the bottom of the boat instead. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats The water stunk with keeping, as though it had grown rank in the bilge, but after it had stood a little while exposed to air it became sweet enough to use. The Honour of the Flag Practically this method consisted of filling up the hollow below the turn of the bilge. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 As Smooth is a national Christian, he believes the timbers of the old ship tough and strong, or they had been bilged ere this. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth Bowers came next with an electric torch, which he shone downwards whilst I got into the water, hanging on to the bottom rungs of the ladder leading to the bilge. South with Scott A man put my bed into the bilge, and never said "Bale out," so I was for a wet night, but it turned out better than I expected. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi The bilge chocks were gone, and thus all chance of a hand grip was lost. The Romance of the Coast The sky will be black with hostile aircraft, and there will be lead in the stew and bleeding bodies in the bilge. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 The only thing I don't know now is how to tell a bilge from a painter. Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit Though, of course, we had washed out the bilges in New Zealand, the constant stream of water which leaked in from the topsides had carried much coal-dust into them. South with Scott The Trial sloop was a great way to leeward, having lost her mainmast in this squall, and having been obliged, for fear of bilging, to cut away the wreck. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced The sloop had lodged on the rock, bilged by the ragged granite. Poor Man's Rock Steam being got up to the highest pressure, the engines worked famously, but she would not move, and I feared the sand would get into the bilges. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha Harriet Penny had fainted and lay with the back of her head awash in the shallow bilge water. The Gun-Brand There was some water in her bilge from the great wave, and that we baled out easily, but she was well framed and almost new. A Sea Queen's Sailing To bilge = to be stove in, or suffer serious injury in the bilge, which is the bottom part of a ship's hull. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced This line, started by Americans in 1887, was the first to use the so-called bilge keels, or parallel keels along each side of the hull to prevent rolling. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Friday the 15th, the ship was bilged in the mid-ship, on a great rock; we took care to secure some powder, ball, and a little bread. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The Tryal was a great way to leeward, having lost her main-mast in the squall, and having been obliged to cut away the wreck, for fear of bilging. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Now and again Dalfin rose up and slipped into the bilge and baled fiercely, while Gerda watched the shore and the green hills, which looked so steady above the tumbling seas, wistfully. A Sea Queen's Sailing Like bad eggs, salt, and tenpenny nails biled in bilge water. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 "It matters not; salt or bilge water makes little difference," returned the son with a smile. Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata In a short time after, she struck, bilged, and grounded, between two small islands, where Providence directed us to such a place as we could save our lives. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The order was promptly executed, but unhappily without producing the desired result, for in a few moments the ship bilged, and the destruction of the whole crew appeared to be inevitable. Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 The condensers are placed at the outsides of the engine room, and the air, feed, and bilge pumps are between the engines and the condensers and worked by levers from the low-pressure engine crosshead. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 "I do, I know—from the very bilge," exclaimed a stout midshipman, one of those who had seen Iris. The Wings of the Morning In crossing the harbour, the Intrepido, from want of precaution in taking soundings, grounded on a bank in the channel, where, bilged by the surf, she finally became a wreck. Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 She was a sweet ship; and the air below, though stuffy, had no taste of bilge in it. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales There was a smell of pitch and bilge in the air mingled with the reek of hot oil from the engines. Vandover and the Brute Two girth-straps kept the canoe firmly in position above, and carpets were used as cushions under its bilge. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries This cunning, evocation of smells, jute, bilge water, the warm oils of the engine room? Jaffery The vessel flung herself about, sometimes combining the motions of pitching and rolling with the utmost virulence; the bilge water went slosh, slosh, and the hot, choking odours came forth on the night. A Dream of the North Sea In passing, it fell down on his small farm, and he smelt it very unpleasant, exactly like, he says, the bilge water of a ship—a sulphurous sort of stench. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines The air was foul with the stench of bilge, the reek of the untrimmed lamps, the exhalation of so many breaths, and the close, stale smell of warm bedding. Vandover and the Brute Presently the odor of tar, bilge water, tobacco and rum warned him that his expected visitor was approaching. The Missing Bride "Ease off! ease off!" cried the bilge stringers. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 And they didn't talk any of this bilge about fighting us in England; they knew, as I know, and every soldier knows—every soldier who's keen—that it's going to be out there. If Winter Comes The bilge pieces are riveted on to the bilge, and made of 9 inches by 4½ inches by 9/16 inch T-iron. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Someone deliberately drained our gasoline into the bilge. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters Now the breaker lay on its bilge, in the middle of the boat, where more or less sea-water always collected. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I There should be a little path running athwart it, down toward the lake and the old flat-bottomed boat, whose bilge is scattered with the black and shriveled remains of angleworms used for bait. Mince Pie Oh, I don't know; some bilge, just as he used to about the masters. If Winter Comes Then he lifted up a floor-board, looked into the bilge, saw that the water therein was rising, and murmured, "Bully—by heck!" Kindred of the Dust Harry had removed the floor boards from the center of the cabin and was reaching down to the bilge. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters One of the Pulo-way people being there, plainly told me that the governor only waited to have her bilged, that he might have the planks to build a praw for himself. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 When the bottles were opened the corks refused to pop, and nobody dared to touch the "bilge" that was within. In the Footprints of the Padres Ordered the donkey engine to be got ready for use last night, in case the ship should make more water than the small bilge pumps could throw out. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter The main and mizzen masts were at once cut away; but the heavy marble in her hold had broken through her bottom, and she bilged. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II "Get the hand bilge pump going and I'll start the power pump with the electric light engine!" Boy Scouts in Southern Waters Only a survey of her bilge outside would help clear up matters, and allow work upon it. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" His knowledge and care, however, did not answer expectation, for he ran the proa on the rocky shoals near the island of Bottone, where she bilged and lost all the mace, the men getting ashore. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Wednesday, January 15th.—Having had the plank replaced in the bilge, and re-coppered and overhauled the propeller, we were let out of dock at 1 P.M. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Her bottom bilged immediately, and the masts were as soon cut away, and the gallant ship, upon which hung the hopes of the colony, was now a complete wreck. The Naval Pioneers of Australia Eagerly the boys plied the handle of the pump, keeping an eye upon the bilge. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters Lines were rove and passed under the ship's bilge and keel. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" They had afterwards waited two days for the Sun, but she had been bilged on the rocks, as we afterwards learnt, to our great regret. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time "Any chance of putting a bilge pump on the water?" asked Jack. The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet Cheese—The red smooth moist coated, and tight pressed, square edged Cheese, are better than white coat, hard rinded, or bilged; the inside should be yellow, and flavored to your taste. American Cookery The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables But two of the members of the class had "bilged." Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis In this clear water the chances are good for getting a sight of it if it's well up on her bilge. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" I hope you bilge, Darrin; with all my heart I hope you bilge soon. Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis Carrie's fur coat was flaring open and, because of the quality of her attire down there where the bilge waters of the city tide flow and eddy, stares followed her. The Vertical City The chief mate then cut her masts away, but the bottom was soon bilged, and everything destroyed by the water, which broke over the decks, and the ship became a perfect wreck. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. "Overhaul ship from bilge ter royals, and if not found, then take a cruise in search uv." The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol I could see him swimming down, down, down under the ship's bilge, growing to a faint brownish yellow speck which wavered and shook with the refraction of the disturbed surface. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" "And that perhaps you've saved us from bilging?" added Midshipman Hayes. Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis In the engine room there are six steam pumps, two of them bilge pumps, worked by the main crossheads, for clearing the engine room of water. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 He was back, knee-deep in trench bilge, tortured in all his being, looking at death from behind a sandbag. The Wrong Twin In the forenoon fires were laid and lighted—the hand pump was got into complete order and sucked the bilges almost dry, so that great quantities of coal and ashes could be taken out. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I It was after eight bells in the afternoon before this was finished, and then Sackett and he went out on it to study the ship's bilge through the calm water. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" My vessel is at your disposal from peaks to bilges. Facing the Flag We caught one & brought him on board, and sent our prize alongside to save what goods we could, for the ship was bilged. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 All the sour smells that rose from an unclean bilge eddied about them. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest It was therefore a thrilling moment or two until it was discovered that the smoke was really steam, arising from the bilge at the bottom having risen to the heated coal. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I "Journegan," he continued, calling to the English mate, "you take the line for a while, and let that young fellow rest, while I try her bilge aft." Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" It was the vilest wine the chemists of Hamburg ever made, though German education favours chemistry; and the water tasted like the bilge of Charon's boat. Essays in Rebellion In the bilge sea water continued to slop, gradually was dumped over the side. The Tarn of Eternity A puddle gathered about her knees in the bilge, sloshing fore and aft as the craft pitched, killing the natural buoyancy of the canoe so that she dove harder. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest "Afraid of being a minute late, and all that sort of bilge." The Brother of Daphne The copper on the ship's bilge looked a light gray, and even the tacks were visible. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" In order to give large carrying capacity, we gave flatness of bottom and squareness of bilge. Men of Invention and Industry I'm sick of drinking bilge, when I might be rolling in my coach, and I'm dog-sick of Jack Gaunt. Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson All the slops of that court went into the drama, all the `sentina reipublicae', the bilge water of the ship of state. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry The wind blew strong, carrying with it the mingled smell of salt, of tar, of dead seaweed, and of bilge. McTeague Seems as we might even get down under her bilge durin' this spell av weather, an' see where th' leak is located. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" Looking about, sure enough I espied our poor craft, rolling and tossing helplessly in the shallows hard by, and running thither, was seized of sudden despair, for I saw her bilged and shattered beyond repair. Martin Conisby's Vengeance The vessel was large, exceedingly strong, as was proved by the fact that she had not bilged in beaching, and apparently well found. Homeward Bound or, the Chase We first endeavoured to force the vessel over the bank; but this did not succeed; and, the tide leaving her, the ship fell over on her bilge; bringing her gunwales under water. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast Clouds of sea-gulls were forever rising and settling upon this mud bank; a wrecked and abandoned wharf crawled over it on tottering legs; close in an old sailboat lay canted on her bilge. McTeague I joined Sackett and Chips on the frame, and studied the ship's bilge the entire length of her waist. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" In the latter a second waterman was seated bailing out bilge with a rusty can. The Black Bag As it was now dead low water, the ship had sewed materially, and was now lying on her bilge partly sustained by the water, and partly by the bottom. Homeward Bound or, the Chase Just at this instant, a sea seemed to strike the brig under her bilge, and fairly throw her on her beam-ends. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast On joining her he saw that she was examining a finely-built canoe with a hole in one bilge. Vane of the Timberlands He had been under her bilge, clear down to the keel on a line with the main channels. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" A grievous stench from foul bilge water poisoned the close, heavy air. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 What the devil are you gaping at, men!" he growled; "did you never see a ship on her bilge before? Homeward Bound or, the Chase This vessel bilged, and lost some of her crew. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast It is a difficult matter to fit a new plank into the rounded bilge of a boat, particularly when one is provided with inadequate appliances. Vane of the Timberlands The foremast is still alongside, and we might get a jury rig on her without danger of heeling her on her bilge. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" No damage is done to her hull more serious than the loss of several sheets of copper, torn from her starboard bilge and from her keel. Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. He does not appear even to have bilged, and most of his sails, and all of his yards, are in their places. Homeward Bound or, the Chase Marble answered with the usual "ay, ay, sir!" but before he sent us into the boats, he ventured to suggest that the ship had bilged already. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale The empty casks are carefully stowed in the hold, with small pieces of board between the quarter-hoops of each cask, so that the bilge of a cask shall touch no other substance whatever. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale The first night, as I lay in my coffin, idly watching the dim lamp swinging to the rolling of the ship, and snuffing the nauseous odors of bilge water, I felt something gallop over me. Roughing It, Part 7. This powerful pump is in a special compartment of the fore hold, and will draw water from the bilge, sea, or either hold. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Planked flooring off the hold fell into the bilge, dropping many prisoners into the bottom of the ship; some were hopelessly pinned down. Blood Brothers A Medic's Sketch Book In the mean time, a South-Sea man we had picked up at Canton, dove down under the lee of the bilge of the ship. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale The bungholes must also be uppermost; thus, in the brief but expressive language of commerce, "every cask must be bung up and bilge free." Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale There was a stink of dead men, bilge, and powder. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Each engine has one feed and one bilge pump attached to the air pump, and worked by the same lever. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 The women very generally protested that such a book would have the odor of bilge water, and that it would give them the maladie de mer. The Pilot Among those who first came on board us, however, was the master of an American brig, belonging to Boston, whose vessel had got on a reef, and bilged. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale I followed his advice: a few strokes brought up the bilge water, than which nothing at that time could have been more insufferably nauseous! Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale One of our boats, nevertheless, with fifteen or sixteen persons on board, ran on a rock and bilged, in attempting to go ashore. Journal of an African Cruiser Can all that bilge water really not be pumped out of the ship? Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Sent carpenter to put bilge pieces on boat's bottom. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Besides, I want an innings against that bilge of old Downing’s, if I can get it.” Mike Help yourself, before passing that bottle—zounds, man, never take a bottle by the bilge—grasp the neck, man, at least in this fervent climate—thank you. Tom Cringle's Log Then there are the editors of the magazine which publishes your Society dialogue bilge, and of all the newspapers, other than the Orb, in which your serious verse appears. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel Sometimes the wind blew with lessened violence, and I could sit upon the submerged bilge of the boat, and consider my state and prospects. The Bushman — Life in a New Country The air pump bucket derives its motion from an arm on the cross head, and a similar arm is usually employed in engines of this class to work the feed and bilge pumps. A Catechism of the Steam Engine "I bear no arms; and both of ye have the bilge on me with all the knives and pistols in yer own hands." The Devil's Admiral In one place, however, a mud-bank touched the bilge, and three or four men, standing on planks, cautiously tried its firmness. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" After a while she again struck heavily, and "lay down on her larboard bilge." The Life of Captain James Cook "Bung up, and bilge free!" he cried, in an ecstasy, flourishing his driver and hammer. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War "Take it down in the bilge and treat it," he said, very sober like, to one of his patrol. Roy Blakeley This time the schooner was not suffered to lie on her bilge at all. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers All night he lay in the curve of the bilge listening to the rush of the water and the straining of the timbers which told him that the ship was at sea and driving fast. The Green Flag Conceive it pawed about and handled between the rude jests of tarpaulin ruffians—a thing of its delicate texture—the salt bilge wetting it till it became as vapid as a damaged lustring. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Every stench under heaven seemed to assail my nostrils, so compounded together, as to be separately indistinguishable, although that of stale bilge water strongly predominated. Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" The divers had bolted on plates to cover the holes in the vessel's bilge before one fell ill and his mate's nerve went. Lister's Great Adventure When the margin of the outer floe first touched the bilge of the schooner, it was at the precise spot where the vessel had just been fortified within. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers From all I can hear it isn't once in a camel's age that a fellow so reported, and ordered before the Board, gets off with anything less than a hard, wet bilge. Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" Were it not for the lines of her bilges and the internal arrangement of her hold, it might be imagined she had been built originally as a pleasure yacht. The Mystery The Reliance, the new hydroplane of the Interstate people, was twenty feet long and had a fuel gauge and a bilge pump. Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane One heard the wind, and water splashed in the bilges. Lister's Great Adventure This leak is not as low down as the vessel's bilge," he said; "for the water did not run out of her, nor into her, until we got her afloat. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers Things were happening fast—Dan's impending "bilge" from the Naval Academy, and his own coming fight with the first classman who would be sure to make it a "blood fight"! Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" The breakers hurling themselves in wild abandon against the rocks sent their back-wash of tumbling peaks to our very bilges. The Mystery Henry George was a sailor; every part of a sailing ship was to him familiar—from bilge- water to pennant, from bowsprit to sternpost. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers We blew in that piece of her bilge with dynamite before I went on board again. Lister's Great Adventure That means they're going to board us, place bombs in the bilges, and sink us that way. Cappy Ricks Retires The captain guessed he read in his face "well now, if I was to run this here Yankee right slap on a rock and bilge her, the King would make a man of me forever." The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville "I heard he wasn't worth two squirts of bilge water," Captain Noah lied glibly. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley The ship, in attempting to follow it, struck first one bilge and then the other, causing her to roll six or seven degrees. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Yet he could see and he followed the diver until they stopped opposite the wreck's port bilge. Lister's Great Adventure Had not the water completely covered these openings, or hatches, the schooner must have sunk in a minute or two, or by the time Mulford had got all his companions safe on her bilge. Jack Tier Some of her bilge plates was loose, he said, and the water half up to the fire-boxes. The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women "I want to examine this vessel from bilge to truck," Matt answered. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley The ship had not been pumped for eight months, but there was no water and not much ice in the bilges. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition "If her bilge was in the sand and the divers couldn't break into the engine-room—" He paused and laughed. Lister's Great Adventure In the course of half an hour the hull of the vessel, which lay on its bilge, began to turn on its keel, and the heads of the spars to rise above the water. Jack Tier No less than five pairs were secured in and near the bilge, and as many more were distributed forwards and aft, according to the shape of the bottom. The Monikins He was bung up and bilge free—and that's why he's chief kicker now. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley The Aurora was quite helpless in the grip of the ice, and after the engine-room bilges had been thawed and pumped out the boilers were blown down. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Arcturus was not yet afloat, and the big wire-ropes, running beneath her bilge, held down the helping craft. Lister's Great Adventure On the other hand, the place where Rose stood, or the bilge of the vessel, was two or three feet above the surface of the sea, though slippery and inclining in shape. Jack Tier Fore-and-aft pieces, that reached from one skid to the other, were then placed between those about the bilge of the ship, each of them having a certain number of short ribs, extending upwards and downwards. The Monikins She struck on a pier, then grounded on the flats, bilged, careened, and settled in the mud. Pioneers of France in the New World After it had been knocked out Worsley, Greenstreet, and Hudson went down in the bunkers and cleared the ice from the bilges. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Ethelberta looked at the light leaning figure of the pretty schooner, which seemed to skate along upon her bilge and make white shavings of all the sea that touched her. The Hand of Ethelberta "She's bilging!" and Sir Oliver saw the Spaniard standing off again, as if satisfied with what she had done. The Sea-Hawk Protected by the massive timbers and false ribs, the bilge of the ship resisted the pressure; and as, under such circumstances, something must yield, luckily nothing but the attraction of gravitation was overcome. The Monikins The victuallers soon found out with whom they had to deal, and sent down to the fleet casks of meat which dogs would not touch, and barrels of beer which smelt worse than bilge water. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Suddenly the floe on the port side cracked and huge pieces of ice shot up from under the port bilge. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition For, speaking as man to man, I must confess that for sheer, concentrated bilge she gets away with the biscuit with almost insolent ease. Psmith, Journalist The great ship, with bilge keels, was as steady as a rock. The Man But wiser counsels prevailed, and the cadets consented to tolerate Jimmy Smith and not drown or kill him for four weeks, when it was thought the examiners would 'bilge' him. The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy He broke a bit from a fishing-rod, secured the line round the middle of it with a notch, put the stick through the bunghole in the bilge, and corked up the hole with a net-float. Sir Gibbie Within a few seconds the ship heeled over until she had a list of thirty degrees to port, being held under the starboard bilge by the opposing floe. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition He felt that he must run no risk of not seeing clearly the husband of one who, in his opinion, stood alone in literary circles as a purveyor of sheer bilge. Psmith, Journalist The great ship, which usually rested even-keeled on two waves, and whose bilge keels under normal conditions rendered rolling impossible, began to pitch and roll like a leviathan at play. The Man The formaldehyde with which Turner had fumigated the ship clung here tenaciously, and, mixed with the odors of bilge water and the indescribable heavy smells left by tropical cargoes, made me dizzy and ill. The After House He leant back and puffed great clouds into the air, filling the small den with an odour suggestive of bilge water and cemeteries. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green The darkness is almost complete, and we mess about in the wet with half-frozen hands and try to keep the coal from slipping back into the bilges. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Indeed, to make her safe from bilging, Blood ordered a prompt jettisoning of the forward guns, anchors, and water-casks and whatever else was moveable. Captain Blood The place was low, not more than seven feet in height, and the slaves lay ironed in the bilge water on the bottom of the vessel. Montezuma's Daughter On his knees, he bored through the head of the first cask until the water rushed out upon the deck and flowed down into the bilge. Michael, Brother of Jerry In the course of the night, the wreck came drifting to the strand, with the surf thundering around her, and shortly afterwards bilged. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains I really thought he would split with rage, for it was impossible for us to go on with that hole in our bilge. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales She was bilging fast, with an ominous list to larboard, and it could be no more than a question of moments before she settled down. Captain Blood But they dragged me along and presently I found myself chained in the midst of a line of black men and women, many feet resting in the bilge water. Montezuma's Daughter In such bilge lie the springs of many of the most vexatious delusions of the world, and of some of its loudest farce no less. In Defense of Women All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. Jane Eyre Even as in a ship all things foul gather to the filthy hollow of the bilge, even so hath a flood of vices poured into Ingild. The Danish History, Books I-IX The water in the bilges thundered at each roll, and lumps of coal skipped to and fro, from end to end, rattling like an avalanche of pebbles on a slope of iron. Typhoon We raised her pretty fast, and the island after her; and made out she was hard aground, canted on her bilge, and had her ens'n flying, union down. The Wrecker The hold was ceiled throughout; a part, where perhaps some delicate cargo was once stored, had been lined, in addition, with inch boards; and between every beam there was a movable panel into the bilge. The Wrecker |
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