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

Lenette, do not go on scrubbing and switching about with that besom of yours, it drives away the whole of my best ideas out of my head.

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

Time, with a big besom, was sweeping her quiet past into the discard—she felt it, she knew it!

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Holmes, Thomas K.

That a nameless besom, picked up from the roadside in the middle of the night, should have the face to speak to me like that!

From A Duel by Marsh, Richard