Ferrers and Pothering, the head of Claremont's, were for the moderns.
"The Loom of Youth" by Alec Waugh
The so-called social diseases, over which eugenists raise such a pother, are surely not the worst curses that mankind has to bear.
"Damn!" by Henry Louis Mencken
Dear me, you never see such a pother.
"A Thin Ghost and Others" by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
But he ton't vont ter pother mit you now.
"The Boy Land Boomer" by Ralph Bonehill
For, in reality, that was all the whole pother was amounting to.
"The Brentons" by Anna Chapin Ray
What has happened to bring about all this pother?
"The Lure of the Mask" by Harold MacGrath
Something unusual must have occurred to put the pirates to all this pother.
"Yr Ynys Unyg" by Julia de Winton
And with that she ran up-stairs, and I after her, in a great pother of haste.
"The Dew of Their Youth" by S. R. Crockett
But in God's name, what is all this pother?
"Chimney-Pot Papers" by Charles S. Brooks
This act was the signal for a precious to-do among the nervous little potherers.
"Our Bird Comrades" by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
I am free, and if there is any power in my brain, any skill in my right hand, I will make such a pother that the world shall hear me.
"The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance" by Paul Elmer More
What a pother about a singer!
"The Place of Honeymoons" by Harold MacGrath
But the Poltroon with the white wig was not out of his Pother yet.
"The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3" by George Augustus Sala
Out it came with a deal of pother.
"A Daughter of Raasay" by William MacLeod Raine
Why all this pother if he really exists?
"Arrows of Freethought" by George W. Foote
And what, in God's name, is all this pother about?
"The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition" by Robert Louis Stevenson
But why all this pother?
"Music: An Art and a Language" by Walter Raymond Spalding
I can't think what is the use of all this pother; we get no good of it.
"The Talking Thrush" by William Crooke
A great pother, this, over the theft of a few horses, taken as the spoil of war!
"Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters" by Edwin L. Sabin
These rules they make such a pother about never seemed so vital to me.
"Rose MacLeod" by Alice Brown
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Thus, while through life we make a pother,
We quit one bauble for another;
But with this diff'rence from the past,
We've now a bauble that will last.
"The Pleasures Of Matrimony" by William Hutton
"Is wary walking worth much pother?"
It grunted, as still it stayed.
"One pairing is as good as another
Where is all venture! Take each other,
And scrap the oaths that you have aforetime made."
"The Contretemps" by Thomas Hardy
Lucretius keeps a mighty pother
With Cupid and his fancied mother;
Calls her great Queen of earth and air,
Declares that winds and seas obey her.
And, while her honour he rehearses,
Implores her to inspire his verses.
"Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto I." by Matthew Prior