pother

Example Sentences

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Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.

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For ten years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news.

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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.

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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 fetched up a sigh as he ended which would have done credit to my Lady Oxford; and Wogan, seeing his friend in this unwonted pother, was minded to laugh him out of it.

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew