Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.
1 The penguin is a very rare bird of passage , with peculiar habits.
2 You are a permanent resident, and I a mere bird of passage .
3 I am a mere bird of passage here, just as you are.
4 My good humor returned to me, as to the bird of passage .
5 Will you go with us, and become a bird of passage ?
6 Whereas, I in comparison, felt myself a mere bird of passage in that port.
7 May 12th: a very mute bird : this is the latest summer bird of passage .
8 Only one bird of passage migrates across the intervening sea.
9 He is a bird of passage with no fixed abode.
10 Ah, I was always a bird of passage , you remember.
11 Far from yielding to evil fortune, he regarded it as but a bird of passage .
12 At best he was but a bird of passage .
13 Another bird of passage ensnared by the beleaguered garrison.
14 Yes, but you see Nurse Trevor was only a bird of passage , so to speak.
15 You are tagged for life like a salmon, or ringed like a bird of passage .
16 I am unfortunately only a bird of passage .
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