Our Town-bred Ladys know you well enough, Your courting Women's like your taking Snuff; Out of mere Idleness you keep a pother, You've no more need of one than of the other.

[103] Garrick perhaps borrowed this saying when, in his epigram on Goldsmith, speaking of the ideas of which his head was full, he said: 'When his mouth opened all were in a pother, Rushed to the door and tumbled o'er each other, But rallying soon with all their force again,

Smollett, in Humphry Clinker (Letter of Sept. 6), writing of the Highlanders and their chiefs, says:'The original attachment is founded on something prior to the feudal system, about which the writers of this age have made such a pother, as if it was a new discovery, like the Copernican system ...

annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener^; bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles

displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze^, feeze [U.S.]; disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret^, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.

Should the guardian friend, or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste; Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother, You can hang or drown at last.

How joyful without any studies to pother, Away in the woods to roam free.

"As to present events, then, it may be assumed that no one is either capable or desirous of speaking the truth; why, then, make such a pother about it as to the past?

Peril is better than pother.

60 Nor shall the royal mistresses be named, Too ugly, or too easy to be blamed, With whom each rhyming fool keeps such a pother, They are as common that way as the other: Yet sauntering Charles, between his beastly brace, Meets with dissembling still in either place, Affected humour, or a painted face.

The Indian ponies, much excited, kept careering through the wood, around the encampment, and now and then halting suddenly, would thrust in their intelligent, though amazed, phizzes, as if to ask their masters when this awful pother would cease, and then, after a moment, rush and trample off again.

So Richard was left in a shabby way To Marcadee, with an abbot to pray And pother with "consolation," Reminding 'twas never too late to search For mercy, and hinting that Mother Church Was never known to leave in the lurch A king with a fat donation.

And in the middle of this pother he continued to offer lucid and surprising explanations to deafened ears until his superior officer, excessively smart and looking like a cross between a cavalryman and a yachtsman, arrived on the scene swinging a cane.

The striking of "four bells" just under his beak unnerved him somewhat, and he departed in a great fuss and pother.

Before he reached it, however, we should have had no hero had not the sapling, the cause of all this pother, made amends by barring the way down the narrow channel.

CHAPTER X GAVINIA ON THE TRACK Corp, you remember, had said that he would go to the stake rather than break his promise; and he meant it, too, though what the stake was, and why such a pother about going to it, he did not know.

What a pother about a common fellow!

But, Lord, here is a pother about a college-wench!' 'College-wench, sir?'

'All this pother about a girl that a month ago your high mightiness would not have looked at in the street.

Just half a week after, the wind sallied forth, And, in anger or merriment, out of the north, Coming on with a terrible pother, 15 From the peak of the crag blew the giant away.

what a pother of writing about it and about!

But, gazing aloft, he saw that these were sea-gulls, wheeling and mewing and making a mighty pother.

Harvey was stupified and indignant, yet he could hardly help smiling at the pother.

Ah, good Heaven, but I would I were out far away from the pother!

" "Let her have her way," whispered Lucy, "she is but a child, and it will be better not to make a pother.