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

Nothing escapes from the besom of his allusiveness, and the style is streaked and pied, almost to monotony, by the accumulation of lively details.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

He wagged his tail so quickly you could hardly see it; then his tail seemed to wag him, and he quivered all over like a heather besom bewitched.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

“Weel,” he said, “I’m thinking yon besom may have had a hand in the thing.”

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold