pother

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)