pother

Example Sentences

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There were signs last week that the pother about U.S. schools was no longer exclusively the jousting ground of editors and educationists.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A dozen commonplace legs were offered the dog; it might have tasted the lot and procured no more pother than the passing of a few shillings, the solatium of a pair of trousers or so.

From The Happy Warrior by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)