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
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the stormy petrel of polio, had a new complaint.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tall, curly-haired, arrogant, he has a penchant for big cigars, for calling himself "a stormy petrel."
From Time Magazine Archive
Tall, gimlet-eyed, Alabama-born J.Frank Norris, 69, rejoices in his ecclesiastical reputation as the "stormy petrel of the Southwest," and sees to it that the description keeps up-to-date.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sailors call the stormy petrel “Mother Carey’s chickens.”
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Dale, Daphne
