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
Like Colonel Mitchell but in different manner and degree, Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, has been a stormy petrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shabby, bright-eyed stranger who could command an audience with these famed statesmen at such an hour was none other than M. Georg Tchitcherin, famed political stormy petrel and Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jim Carey had been a stormy petrel in the labor movement for years.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Do you know, old fellow, that that stormy petrel of the Revolution, Cluseret of the Commune, is said to be in Madrid?"
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
