pother

Example Sentences

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The epistolary pother had its genesis on June 13, when Watt and Arens sat together at a Washington banquet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus it was amid no end of Imperial pother last week that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ended his holiday in Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street.

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But had their true condition here been known, that pother had been saved.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert