stormy petrel
Example Sentences
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But Leon Smith, the captain, was determined to have him here, his stormy petrel capable of all sorts of heroics in the past, a good luck charm now, and a loud one.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2015
Pierre Boulez used to be the stormy petrel of contemporary music.
From Time Magazine Archive
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 58, hawk-nosed, "gimlet-eyed" stormy petrel of the U. S. Marine Corps; of an abdominal ailment; in Philadelphia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stormy petrel from Wisconsin has issued a stinging rejoinder.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wild notion had seized him that the Princess Roshinara, a stormy petrel of political affairs just then, might have drifted to Rai Bareilly by some evil chance.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
