pother

Example Sentences

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Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks.

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The colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother.

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Thus it was amid no end of Imperial pother last week that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ended his holiday in Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street.

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This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn.

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What a ridiculous pother, to be sure, over one paltry man's impertinence!

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis