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

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 Bartlett, William Chauncey

He wagged his tail so quickly you could hardly see it; then his tail seemed to wag him, and he quivered all over like a heather besom bewitched.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

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

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold