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

The place was a welter of up-rooted trees, logs jammed together in fantastic shapes; it was as if some wanton besom of destruction had swept the narrow rift.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

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

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