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  • The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
  • Modern designers might well pine for a vessel with the nearly unlimited range, comparatively low construction cost, and ease of repair and resupply offered by the sailing man-of-war.
  • Then, one day, the fog lifted on the edge of a heavy wind, and there jammed down upon us a schooner, with close in her wake the cloudy funnels of a Russian man-of-war. An Odyssey of the North
  • Fort St. Joseph, the fascine batteries, and one Spanish man-of-war; the other three being burnt or sunk by the foe, that they might not fall into our hands. The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • So, there being no chance of a man-of-war, we had to await the arrival of a brig called the Euphemia, which was daily expected, and which would sail again for Liverpool so soon as her cargo was landed and a fresh one shipped. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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  • Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japanese from a man-of-war, Moon and Sixpence
  • Dilute vinegar is good first aid for box jellyfish and Portuguese man-of-war stings.
  • The poor voyageurs, too, continually irritated his spleen by their "lubberly" and unseemly habits, so abhorrent to one accustomed to the cleanliness of a man-of-war. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
  • Another marine example is the Portuguese man-of-war, which can measure more than 150 feet from its air bladder to the tips of its tentacles. SuperCooperators
  • After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
  • Partly it is this notion of the sublime returning to the domestic to shatter it, as in that moment when Odysseus reveals himself, less a man-of-war as he fires his arrows out into the crowd of suitors, more a terrorist or an exile returned, as Dionysus in Thebes. On the Sublime
  • The Eugene Register Guard notes that the island is located three miles off Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, is 20 acres in size, and is home to man-of-war birds and pelicans, lizards, orchids, pineapples, mangos and many, many coconuts.
  • In a man-of-war, and in some merchantmen, this alternation of watches is kept up throughout the twenty-four hours; but our ship, like most merchantmen, had “all hands” from twelve o’clock till dark, except in bad weather, when we had “watch and watch. Chapter III. Ship’s Duties-Tropics
  • His mention at the bottom of page 19 of sailors immediately made me think of the degree of specialization in an 18th or 19th century man-of-war, compared to the very little division of labor in, for example, a trireme or a proa. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
  • 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.
  • Jones, a man known for his attention to detail in shipbuilding praised the craftsmanship of the Portsmouth workers when they built the man-of-war, America, in 1782.
  • Often mistaken for a jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war is actually made up of a colony of organisms working together.
  • 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.
  • As it was, the murder of the white men, of any white man, would bring a man-of-war that would kill the offenders and chop down the precious cocoanut trees. MAUKI
  • Disappointed with the dilatory tactics of the cocoa firms, he even suggested sending a man-of-war to arrest a slave ship.
  • Two weeks later a U.S. man-of-war, steaming out of the port of Vladivostok, is hailed by the Russians and Bub Russell is dropped over the rail to the deck of the American ship; a week later he is put ashore at Hakodate, and after some telegraphing, his fare is paid on the railroad to Yokohama. “The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know. . .”
  • Four of the six larger patches have each a sand bank near the middle, which do not appear to have been lately covered by the tide; and they are now more or less frequented by sea birds, such as noddies, boobies, tropic, and man-of-war birds, gannets, and perhaps some others. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
  • Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log -- shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware! Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
  • 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.
  • It is certain that on moonlit nights the man-of-war bird may be seen for hours floating far above the sea.
  • The Man-of-War floats on a gas-filled, blue to pink, translucent body called a pneumatophore.
  • William Dampier observes that he remarked that the man-of-war birds and the boobies always left sentinels near their young ones, especially while the old birds were gone to sea on their fishing-expeditions, and that there were a great number of sick or crippled man-of-war birds which appeared to be no longer in a state to go out for provisions.
  • The United States should act alone, he declared, rather than ‘come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war.’
  • After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
  • This Portuguese man-of-war is a type of siphonophore often found in tropical waters. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • 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.
  • Like the Portuguese man-of-war (see picture), the new creature is actually a colonial organism, made up of many animals.
  • The Portuguese man-of-war is a large poisonous jellyfish-like creature found in the UK.
  • It was computed by an experienced arithmetician, that there was as much twopenny ale consumed on the discussion as would have floated a first-rate man-of-war. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Like the Portuguese man-of-war (see picture), the new creature is actually a colonial organism, made up of many animals.
  • Just then, as ill luck would have it, came in the Winchelsea man-of-war, by way of visit, which put the marooners into such a surprise that they set fire to the ship and sloop and fled ashore to the woods.
  • Just the same as before -- a little "calvary" at one end of the garden and a rough picture of a Madonna in an arbor, the long, echoing corridors spotless as the deck of a man-of-war, and the smiling faces making a very flower-garden of the community-room. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
  • Surfers more often encounter free-floating coelenterates such as the true jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, and box jellyfish.
  • Santiago sees a man-of-war bird circling in the sky ahead of him.
  • Killing American sailors on the USS Cole in the port of Aden was praiseworthy since no modern Muslim power had ever so humbled an American man-of-war. The Slaughter That Muslims Could Not Ignore
  • So Longinus constructs his metaphor of Euripedes the man-of-words as Euripedes the man-of-war. On the Sublime
  • Disappointed with the dilatory tactics of the cocoa firms, he even suggested sending a man-of-war to arrest a slave ship.
  • Nonetheless, mariners landing in 1803 and 1822 found no inhabitants save ‘cormorants, petrels, gannets, man-of-war birds, and turtles weighing from five hundred to seven hundred pounds.’
  • Then came the man-of-war that threw shells for miles into the hills, frightening the people out of their villages and into the deeper bush. MAUKI
  • Fourth Cavalry on its way to the Philippines, as many drunken man-of-war's men, divers ladies from Iwilei, and half the riff-raff of the beach. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
  • Like the Portuguese man-of-war (see picture), the new creature is actually a colonial organism, made up of many animals.
  • Far to the north, a much more menacing species looms – the Portuguese Man-of-War, a floating, violet-coloured sack with long tentacles.

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