pother

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the pother he had started went on.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There's something else in the wind," muttered Mount, as we hid in Belcher's Lane to avoid a party of dragoons; "all this pother is never made on our account.

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)