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  • Well, it turned out to be the sewage sludge industry, and she was calling because she said, I heard that you have this book coming out, Toxic Sludge is Good for You, and I'm really quite concerned because, frankly, it's not toxic anymore and we don't call it sludge.

    Boing Boing: September 9, 2001 - September 15, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Sludge occurs when oxidized oil builds up in an engine.

    How Often Should You Change Your Oil? 2010

  • Sludge occurs when oxidized oil builds up in an engine.

    How Often Should You Change Your Oil? 2010

  • Sludge HIll The EPA says only small particles of Ford paint sludge remain in area commonly known as Sludge Hill.

    Latest News 2009

  • I know many, and I have never met anything in the least like "Sludge," a poem which Browning might be excused for writing in some crisis of domestic disagreement, but which it was inexcusable to republish since it is admitted to be a concoction, and the exposure described to have been imaginary.

    The Vital Message 1919

  • "Sludge" did not interest Lewisham, it was not at all his idea of a medium, but he read and re-read "The Statue and the Bust."

    Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

  • The general idea is that Browning must have intended "Sludge" for an attack on spiritual phenomena, because the medium in that poem is made

    Robert Browning 1905

  • I know many, and I have never met anything in the least like "Sludge," a poem which Browning might be excused for writing in some crisis of domestic disagreement, but which it was inexcusable to republish since it is admitted to be a concoction, and the exposure described to have been imaginary.

    The Vital Message Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • "Sludge" stands on a different footing; for it is dramatically expressive, as these are not.

    Robert Browning 1892

  • "Sludge"; it also happened that it contained "The Statue and the

    Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

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