besom
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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
This was the besom with which they had swept the holy house, the Caaba, and the Beth Alla.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
His thick lubber lips were drawn heavily downward, and under his besom brows his little eyes were red and his eyelids swollen.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
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 Cyrus Townsend Brady
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