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

Unhappily, when the dog-star is in the sky, there is but too much probability that the epidemic will sweep the place with the besom of destruction.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt

His admiration and excitement knew no bounds; he could not sit at the dinner-table, but rushed out perpetually to look at the glorious sight, repeating: “It is a besom of destruction sweeping the sky.”

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

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