pother

Example Sentences

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Since Army and Navy make a great pother about secrecy in the design and construction of planes, questions had to be asked in Washington.

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

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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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There's something else in the wind," muttered Mount, as we hid in Belcher's Lane to avoid a party of dragoons; "all this pother is never made on our account.

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)