pother

Example Sentences

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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

Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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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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The Doctor joined us rather inopportunely and, accounting for the situation, made no end of a pother with his traps and his canoe.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)