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 need of a besom that sweep the house with a turf.

From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas

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.

Taking an easterly direction towards Fantáli, we passed numerous well-peopled hamlets, occupying all the secluded nooks, and as wealthy in flocks and herds as if the Amhára besom had never swept the land.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis