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

With his besom he began to scrub the refuse out of every corner.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

I then endeavoured to remove the dish with the stable besom.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon

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