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 advanced, whilst the caliph, without showing himself, put forth his hand from behind the tapestry that hung before the door, and demanded of them the besom.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

Taking an easterly direction towards Fantáli, we passed numerous well-peopled hamlets, occupying all the secluded nooks, and as wealthy in flocks and herds as if the Amhára besom had never swept the land.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

The northeast winds, like a gigantic besom swung by the hand of some god with a passion for cleanliness, constantly swept away the dust and ashes of the firmament.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando