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

Unhappily, when the dog-star is in the sky, there is but too much probability that the epidemic will sweep the place with the besom of destruction.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt

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