What a pother the preachers do surely keep up there.
For myself, I care nothing either way, and cannot understand what they are making this pother about.
Now here was a deal of pother about a capuchin who had stared at the Madonnino of Anguissola!
Why, that here is a deal of pother about some foolish words.
I asked what was the cause of the stir and ado, the mighty coil and pother they made.
A young tight thing, as fair as may be, Without a dad conceived a baby, And brought him forth without the pother In labour made by teeming mother.
In the same way, one is conscious of disappointment that the navy pother has not blossomed into a naked scandal.
There was a great pother for some time before his death about a successor.
The Duke came into the room, stayed a very little while, but excited himself talking about Spain and the Treaty of Utrecht, the pother about which he declared was 'all damned stuff.
In most places when a bridge has to be made, there is an infinite pother and worry about building the piers, coffer-dams, and heaven knows what else.
I never could abide him,--he made such dismal pother about sin; old Father Girolamo was worth a dozen of him.
I was musing how best to escape out of this pother when, on a sudden lifting of my head, I saw upon my left hand, level with my eyes, the blurred twinkle of the light.
All this pother about a girl that a month ago your high mightiness would not have looked at in the street.
Fulk was as calm as a frosty morning, his face looking serenely through all the whirl and pother of the swashbuckler’s blows.
Why all this pother about what one's neighbour thought, when this pother was not energized by any good will?
What was all this pother about hell as a future state?
For, in reality, that was all the whole pother was amounting to.
Therefore it had seemed to Doctor Keltridge the one way of escape from the whole pother had been opened by his words, which he now repeated with a fresh emphasis that he hoped would finally impress them upon Scott Brenton's ear.
We rested (army pattern) for five days, and, amongst all thepother of parading and cleaning up, knew again the glorious delight of a daily dip in the sea.
One of the drivers, who had been pinned between his two horses by the fall, had fallen asleep while waiting to be extricated, and lay peacefully oblivious to the pother around him.
I am free, and if there is any power in my brain, any skill in my right hand, I will make such a potherthat the world shall hear me.
And so you expect to make such a pother in your opposition to the spirit of the times that all the world will hear you.
I need not tell you what the gist of that magnum opus is to be, and, dear sceptic, trust me it will be put into such a form as to stir up a potherwhether with or without ultimate results.
Tis a naughty trick that will save us a pother o' trouble.
But he came to your factor and wanted to take the first ship that cleared, and seemed in such a mortal pother that Mr. Horsley suspicioned something, and gave me a slant to look out for him.
While our rich men drivel and stand amazed At the dust and pother his gang have raised, And make us remember a nursery tale Of the four-and-twenty who feared one snail.
But Remus thrust rudely in among the throng and laughed aloud in scorn: "What a wall to make such a pother about!
