pother

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

For ten years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news.

From Time Magazine Archive

As usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted.

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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

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)