pother
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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
Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.
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Intent on his pursuits, impervious to the demonic, he will not notice the gods' dreadful pother being made above his head.
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For ten years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news.
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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 Robert Beverley
Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary pothers in Britain.
From Time Magazine Archive
“As if he would want to be pothered with an old aunt!” cried Rhoda.
From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Horace Petherick
Unlike their fraternity in the ring of Seville, where they are doomed to die, the animals are only doomed to be pothered; they are "scotched, not killed."
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
“Ho! inteed!” exclaimed Angus, rising in wrath, and cramming his pipe into his vest pocket; “it is herself that will pe pothering you no more spout your dirty land, Samyool Ruvnshaw.”
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
That she possessed any sense of humour was in itself one of those human miracles which metaphysicians are always pothering over without arriving anywhere; for her previous environment had been particularly humourless.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
While his subtle mind was pothering with schemes of detection, the affair presented itself in another light, and he laughed at his own dulness.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
The remaining 361 days the sun is pothering around all over the shop.
From The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
See them prepare a dish of various fish, Showering profuse the pounded Indian grain, An overpowering vapour, gallimaufry A multitude confused of pothering odours!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
