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

Your rag and your besom have cost me at least sixteen currency dollars this morning.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

Happily, the garden was neglected, otherwise the besom of the gardener would have swept away all traces of the highway they had made.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

Not I!—to be beaten by a besom and flouted and mocked to boot!

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)