pother
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Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were signs last week that the pother about U.S. schools was no longer exclusively the jousting ground of editors and educationists.
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The colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother.
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As usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted.
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Yet one must be in the pother for the sake of Clothes food and Lodging.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary pothers in Britain.
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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
“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
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
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
In a few moments I hear cries and yells and shouts, and a pothering and squabbling.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
“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
