Example Sentences

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“As if he would want to be pothered with an old aunt!” cried Rhoda.

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace

Unlike their fraternity in the ring of Seville, where they are doomed to die, the animals are only doomed to be pothered; they are "scotched, not killed."

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James