pother

Example Sentences

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intent on his pursuits, impervious to the demonic, he will not notice the gods' dreadful pother being made above his head.

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As usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted.

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Bedrock facts beneath the billows of press pother last week about the Gold Standard: France.

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As to our own work, duty, influence, etc., concerning which so much fussy pother is made, it will not fail of its due effect, though, like a lichen on a stone, we keep silent.

From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John