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

Not I!—to be beaten by a besom and flouted and mocked to boot!

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert 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

I then endeavoured to remove the dish with the stable besom.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon