man-o'-war

Richard Turnbull sailed to brief fame and glory aboard the frigate _Quicksilver, _captured a substantial French prize -- a man-o'-war, no less, plus the treasure ship it was escorting -- then retired to the safety of commissioning, building, rigging, and outfitting Quicksilver House ... and a less fraught engagement, finding a suitable wife to complement the soft furnishings of his new, landlocked command.

The Body Ricardo 2010

Richard Turnbull sailed to brief fame and glory aboard the frigate _Quicksilver, _captured a substantial French prize -- a man-o'-war, no less, plus the treasure ship it was escorting -- then retired to the safety of commissioning, building, rigging, and outfitting Quicksilver House ... and a less fraught engagement, finding a suitable wife to complement the soft furnishings of his new, landlocked command.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

It was on the island of Cephallonia, the place that travellers describe as looking like a dismasted man-o'-war, and the town where they landed was Lixouri.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

From below it looked like a cross between a man-o'-war jellyfish and the world's biggest shark.

The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989

It never even occurred to him that a hospital ship could be used as a man-o'-war.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

But the boat that was leaving the Bride of Abydos was not being handled in the man-o'-war fashion one would have expected of Ramsbottom.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

Now, as she came up into the harbour, she could pass without question for a man-o'-war brig except that she flew the Royal Yacht Squadron burgee instead of a commission pendant.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

She appeared to have a truncated funnel and the high fighting superstructure of a man-o'-war.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars 'style.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 Various

"I will go without it," he resolved, and counted the hours to the sailing of the man-o'-war.

Fletcher of Madeley Brigadier Margaret Allen