man of war in English

warship, battleship

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1. In the Caribbean frigatebirds were called Man-of-War birds by English mariners.

2. 12 Our cog was a sturdy merchantman escorted by a small man-of-war.

3. They draw up in battle order like a man of war against you, O daughter of Zion.”

4. Blockading is the most trying duty the blue-jacket has to discharge. The duties of a Blockading man-of-war are monotonous, at best

5. The Coelenterates are mainly marine organisms and are best known as jellyfish or medusae, sea anemones, corals, the Portuguese man-of-war, small polypoid forms called hydroids, and the …

6. Bluebottles (also known as Portugese Man-of-War jellyfish) vary in size, and the severity of the sting usually depends on the amount of contact the skin has had with the tentacle.

7. ‘Surfers more often encounter free-floating Coelenterates such as the true jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, and box jellyfish.’ ‘Throughout the wreck dive we have been shadowed by thousands of Coelenterates, drifting by like a slow hail of souls.’

8. ‘Surfers more often encounter free-floating Coelenterates such as the true jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, and box jellyfish.’ ‘Throughout the wreck dive we have been shadowed by thousands of Coelenterates, drifting by like a slow hail of souls.’

9. Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a Comely person, and the LORD is with him.

10. Bur the floggings at the gangway and the floggings through the fleet, the stealings, highway robberies, swearings, gamblings, Blasphemings, thimble-riggings, smugglings, and tipplings of a man-of-war, which throughout this narrative have been here and there sketched from the life, by no means comprise the whole catalogue of evil.