pother

Example Sentences

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Let the great Gods, that keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, find out their enemies now.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did.

From Time Magazine Archive

With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But the judges were intimidated by the awful pother o'er their heads and were glad of an excuse to drop McCardle.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace