man-o-war

PS The reason people don't swim when signs are posted that there are Portuguese man-o-war jellyfish in the water is that those suckers sting.

Of Blue Dogs and Pink Jellyfish 2009

PS The reason people don't swim when signs are posted that there are Portuguese man-o-war jellyfish in the water is that those suckers sting.

Of Blue Dogs and Pink Jellyfish 2009

You have two choices: Become enriched in the sunshine of Roth, and shed that man-o-war demeanor, or continue to act and smell like an orangutan†™ s ass in heat.

David Lee Roth: Amtrak FM « BuzzMachine 2006

When Frank Chapman visited Pelican Island in 1898 the thousands of herons, egrets, roseate spoonbills, man-o-war birds, and white ibises were gone, and the pelicans severely reduced.

History of Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge 2007

By 4 P.M., he could distinctly make out the shape of a Royal Navy man-o-war, with her yellow topsides, as well as the smaller sloop following in her wake.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

The mood among the crew, untested in battle, quickly went from eager expectation at the prospect of picking up prizes to panic at being blown out of the water by a man-o-war.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

She held an open book on her knees and was pointing out something in it to Constantine who, dressed in a man-o-war suit, lay at her feet.

Dubliners 2003

About a thousand people had walked or ridden from the surrounding villages, lured by the news that a British man-o-war had trapped the Pirate Jones.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

About a thousand people had walked or ridden from the surrounding villages, lured by the news that a British man-o-war had trapped the Pirate Jones.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

In any case, he knew the British man-o-war could sail faster and outmanuever his old Indiaman; he wanted to slow her down.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003