pother

Eight years later, the political pother is angrier and meaner.

It's midwinter, and in the midst of all the usual seasonal pother, Jamie skips out and takes the ferry north from Aberdeen to Orkney.

Broadly stated, the outcome of all the pother has been to restore to an unthankful world what is probably a complete set of the works of Philodemus!

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.

What might not be accomplished if Old Neptune would put his shoulder to the wheel, instead of making all this magnificent but useless pother!