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

He wagged his tail so quickly you could hardly see it; then his tail seemed to wag him, and he quivered all over like a heather besom bewitched.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 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

They have need of a besom that sweep the house with a turf.

From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas