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

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.

They have thrown aside for a time the besom of Radical reform, and are now extending in place of it the olive-branch of peace to each different section of their antagonists.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

This was the besom with which they had swept the holy house, the Caaba, and the Beth Alla.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by