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

That a nameless besom, picked up from the roadside in the middle of the night, should have the face to speak to me like that!

From A Duel by Marsh, Richard

There had been a little variance in the "besom of destruction" which operated in favor of that mysterious cat.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

They advanced, whilst the caliph, without showing himself, put forth his hand from behind the tapestry that hung before the door, and demanded of them the besom.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William