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stormy petrel
noun as in bird of ill omen
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Weary to death, Eric flung himself down, and slept deep and sound till the morning, on board the Stormy Petrel.
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He found his vein in weekly journalism, and for nearly forty years was the stormy petrel of Canadian politics.
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A fishing-schooner, if well handled, is a veritable stormy petrel in riding out a blow.
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Long before the first outbreak of hostilities in America Miranda had played the part of stormy petrel in other continents.
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But the good Bishop he walked as easily as a stormy petrel, for he was a man of God.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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