man-of-war
man-o'-war

For a man of war, that struck her as strange.

However, they were soon met by a French man of war and forced to flee.

"I am not returning home as a man of war," he said.

He was a poet and a scholar, but also a man of war.

The men of war were on either hand, and the mules followed with the merchandise.

He also, like former Maliks, was a man of war.

We agreed that a hospital was very much like a ship, and being under fire had made her like a man of war.

Nikephoros, a man of war, was not good at diplomacy.

For those rough men of war, that seemed to suffice.

They were both men of war, but all they had in common was their loyalty.