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

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.

“Weel,” he said, “I’m thinking yon besom may have had a hand in the thing.”

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold

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