pother

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But the pother he had started went on.

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Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.

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With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains.

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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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Rising with a gesture of impatience to retire from the field, he cried out: 'There, there! what a pother, to be sure!

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis