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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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But the pother he had started went on.

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The Doctor joined us rather inopportunely and, accounting for the situation, made no end of a pother with his traps and his canoe.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)