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

Nothing escapes from the besom of his allusiveness, and the style is streaked and pied, almost to monotony, by the accumulation of lively details.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

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

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

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold