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

Mary, bring the besom, my girl, to brush the snow off my boots.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon

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

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