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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.

He found his vein in weekly journalism, and for nearly forty years was the stormy petrel of Canadian politics.

A fishing-schooner, if well handled, is a veritable stormy petrel in riding out a blow.

Long before the first outbreak of hostilities in America Miranda had played the part of stormy petrel in other continents.

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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