besom

Example Sentences

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Her chariot was a mortar, which she pushed with a pestle, using her besom to erase her singular track.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a flicker like green fire in his eyes, and his beard stood out stiff as a great besom.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Well do I mind the first time I caught her in, the besom!

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

I then endeavoured to remove the dish with the stable besom.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon

His thick lubber lips were drawn heavily downward, and under his besom brows his little eyes were red and his eyelids swollen.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir