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 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

It was nearly certain, at any rate, that the housekeeper at the castle would want lavender and violets, and Dame Annis told Mary to get the besom and sweep out the still-room.

From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise

His thick lubber lips were drawn heavily downward, and under his besom brows his little eyes were red and his eyelids swollen.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir