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How to use man-of-war in a sentence

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It is certain that on moonlit nights the man-of-war bird may be seen for hours floating far above the sea.
I wondered just how many stings I could take, as I anxiously scanned the surface for the float sac of a Portuguese man-of-war.
Dilute vinegar is good first aid for box jellyfish and Portuguese man-of-war stings.
At 13, Read was sent to be a footboy to a French woman but she ran off and joined a man-of-war crew still disguised as a man.
For example, in a fresh gale, a well-conditioned man-of-war could just carry in chase, full and by, treble-reefed topsails, etc.
The man-of-war fish is a driftfish found in all tropical and subtropical oceans of the world.
Tells about the small man-of-war, a harmless companion, Nomeus, which lives always in the shadow of a man-of-war float.
Real was playing pragmatically, with coach José Mourinho wearing his man-of-war game face.
A few notable exceptions did exist, such as the Great Harry, a large British man-of-war.
A few species of jellyfish are highly toxic to humans, such as the local Cyanea capillata and the well known Portuguese man-of-war.
Its man-of-war cut evidently inspired the natives with huge respect for their big brothers from Canada.
Surfers more often encounter free-floating coelenterates such as the true jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, and box jellyfish.
Disappointed with the dilatory tactics of the cocoa firms, he even suggested sending a man-of-war to arrest a slave ship.
Santiago sees a man-of-war bird circling in the sky ahead of him.
Small birds are altogether absent and, except the ordinary domestic fowl, we found only the tropic or man-of-war bird, petrels, gulls, and a variety of aquatic birds.
Or consider the Portuguese man-of-war, a creature that acts like an individual but is actually a huge colony of beings moving as one.
The growing importance of the heavily gunned man-of-war at sea during the reign of Henry VIII was to transform the administration that supplied them.
The man-of-war is one of the best-known siphonophores.
Mr. Atherton died at sea as a guest on a Chilean man-of-war.
The man-of-war fish is usually found in the open sea, near its protector.
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Then all the guns were fakes, and the whole business of a man-of-war as well?
The carrack, which was brought home in safety, was larger than any man-of-war or merchantman belonging to England.
She was a large brig, and, from the squareness of her yards, she looked like a man-of-war.
Three steamships, bearing two regiments of soldiers, convoyed by a British man-of-war, attacked the bogue forts.
The two had an air of bristling, hog-backed ferocity, strangely out of keeping with the normal reserve of a man-of-war.
He rolled forward majestically to the turn-table, and swung like a man-of-war in a tideway, till he picked up his track.
There was scarcely sea enough to tremble the top-hamper of the unsuspecting man-of-war.
It is, in short, the man-of-war that was in St. Blas when we left there.
Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast.
Carlos came to the side, and looked after the man-of-war in the distance.
I suppose they had no man-of-war handy for the service in Cuba.
Why, the man has never been out of Ireland except on a British man-of-war.
The Dutch brought the phenix into the roadstead, and began ostentatiously to fit her as a man-of-war.
The boat returned on board the ringdove, and I, as well as the others, rejoiced in having eluded impressment in a man-of-war.
In the year 1745, continues the same writer, the Fox man-of-war was stranded on the coast of East Lothian, and went to pieces.
Gardner was engaged that spring in building two large man-of-war brigs, professedly for the Mexican government.
But I can declare she is a man-of-war, for a long pennant flutters from her main mast.
The order was executed as promptly as it would have been on board a man-of-war.
I believe I have lived as much on board as most women, and I know nothing superior to the accommodations of a man-of-war.
The speedwell was convoyed by the Leviathan, man-of-war of 74 guns.
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