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
We dwell in a region of the earth, seldom touched by this besom of destruction.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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
The king’s áferoch had been busy since early morn, and every thing had been swept with the besom of destruction.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
