man-of-war bird
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
The captain of marines also shot an albatross or man-of-war bird, so called from its manner of skimming through the air after other birds, which the seamen compare to sailing.
From A Sailor of King George by Bevan, A. Beckford
The beautiful long tail-feathers of the tropic or man-of-war bird were used for the same purpose.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
The pelicans were plundered by all their fish-eating neighbors, even the big terns; but the man-of-war bird robbed the robbers.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore
Until 1909, the inhabitants consisted of the Laysan albatross, black-footed albatross, sooty tern, gray-backed tern, noddy tern, Hawaiian tern, white tern, Bonin petrel, two shearwaters, the red-tailed tropic bird, two boobies and the man-of-war bird.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
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