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

They have thrown aside for a time the besom of Radical reform, and are now extending in place of it the olive-branch of peace to each different section of their antagonists.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

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

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