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

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

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.

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

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I assured her it was not, but she was convinced that this Bristol pother was at the bottom of the trouble.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)