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
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
There had been a little variance in the "besom of destruction" which operated in favor of that mysterious cat.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
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 Thomas Preston
