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

Lenette, do not go on scrubbing and switching about with that besom of yours, it drives away the whole of my best ideas out of my head.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

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

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