In the last influenza epidemic countless physicians were puzzled by the spectacle of men and women in the pink of condition carried off in twenty-four hours while puny associates were either passed over, or pooh-poohed their colds.

He took command; he cross-examined landlord and postboys, pooh-poohed their objections, extracted from them in half-a-dozen curt questions more information than, five minutes before, they were conscious of possessing, to judge from the scratching of heads which produced it; finally, he handed Dorothea into the chaise, sprang in himself, and closed discussion with a slam of the door.

But I pooh-poohed it!

Duncan pooh-poohed the possibility of Priam being Priam.

Whatever new thing the people like is pooh-poohed; whatever is popular is spoken of as not worth the while.

She pooh-poohed and tossed her head, and said, "Mr. Easterbrook, indeed!"

And when Aunt Hattie pooh-poohed some more, and asked how could she do such a thing, Mother answered: "Because Charles Anderson is the father of my little girl, and I think she should hear him speak.

Bambi pooh-poohed that excuse.

pooh-poohed Mrs. Albright.

Once or twice he mentioned health-food and dieting, and was pooh-poohed into a corner.

He resolved to consider it as a boyish fancy, easily to be suppressed; and pooh-poohed it down, to Frank, accordingly.

Soon, very soon, I grew conscious that he thought me a simpleton; he pooh-poohed my belief in Naturalism and declined to discuss the symbolist question.

But sometimes I used to remember him and wonder whether perhaps in all such warnings that came to us there were not a horrible truth which one day, when brutally revealed, would make a mockery of all those men in England who pooh-poohed the peril, and of the idealists who believed that friendly relations with Germany could be secured by friendly words.

He good-humouredly pooh-poohed the whole thing; but at the same time was evidently curious about it.

Tommy had pooh-poohed him from the first, to Grizel's unutterable woe.

Whatever new thing the people like is pooh-poohed; whatever is popular is regarded as not worth while.

His irrigation system will doubtless be followed in the same order and interval by those who have pooh-poohed it with the same derision and incredulity as the other innovations they have already adopted.

The men pooh-poohed the idea of war, and returned to the evening papers and the proces Caillaux, which was the most exciting question of the moment.

Soon, very soon, I began to see that he thought me a simpleton; he pooh-poohed my belief in Naturalism and declined to discuss the symbolist question.

When the war was over and Mr. Pinckney walked out of Fort Taylor a free man, the portly Hannah "pooh-poohed" the announcement that she was a free citizen.

I have tried darkly to hint this to the boys, but have been so decisively pooh-poohed that I resolve not to allude to the subject again.

Once or twice I have tried to tell him so, and he has gently pooh-poohed me.

When I was in England after a former visit to Germany I met a number of seafolk who pooh-poohed extensive future submarining, by saying that, no matter how many submarines the Germans might be able to produce, the training of submarine officers and crew was such a difficult task that the "submarine menace," as it was then called in England, need not be taken too seriously.

Barlow, who was present, pooh-poohed the whole idea, especially the suggestion that his face should appear, but someone present having suggested Alcibiades, probably not seriously as a proper type, that seemed to strike Barlow's sense of humour.

That Colonel Clifford resumed his determination to marry Julia Clifford to Walter, and pooh-poohed Fitzroy entirely, declaring him to be five feet nothing, and therefore far below the military standard.