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pother

[poth-er] / ˈpɒð ər /


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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

Bedrock facts beneath the billows of press pother last week about the Gold Standard: France.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the reason of the pother was this.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

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

“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

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

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

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




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