pother

Example Sentences

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The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap.

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

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But the pother he had started went on.

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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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He himself writes that some of the newspapers are “fierce and furious” about “Hiawatha,” and again “there is the greatest pother over ‘Hiawatha.’”

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth