stormy petrel
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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
William Mitchell, onetime stormy petrel of U. S. aviation.
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
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 pilot boat was soon unmoored and flying out to sea like a stormy petrel.
From A Noble Woman by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
