pother

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intent on his pursuits, impervious to the demonic, he will not notice the gods' dreadful pother being made above his head.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus it was amid no end of Imperial pother last week that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ended his holiday in Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

A dozen commonplace legs were offered the dog; it might have tasted the lot and procured no more pother than the passing of a few shillings, the solatium of a pair of trousers or so.

From The Happy Warrior by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)