pother

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Let the great Gods, that keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, find out their enemies now.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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The bone of contention which all this pother was about.

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Marsh, Richard