How To Use Besom In A Sentence
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Brush in fine sand with a besom, and the grass will breathe more easily.
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I tell you what, Catlaw, I met a man yestreen that kent your mither, and he says she was a feikie, [3] fushionless besom.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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besom" and there were two thousand recorded deaths beside multitudes unnoted.
De la philosophie de la nature
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The spa offers a traditional Russian banya experience, involving a ritual of hot saunas, cold baths and an invigorating banya besom treatment—a stimulating massage using birch or oak twigs.
Latvia's Burgeoning Spa Scene
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It was the old besom who had stood behind the reception counter when she arrived.
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The event, led by the National Trust, saw crafts-people from across the country, including besom makers and stone-wallers demonstrating their traditional trades.
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Provided there is not too much wind, and there are enough fire-breaks - a burn, perhaps, or a wide track to prevent the fire taking off - you can keep the blaze under control by beating it down with the besoms.
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It swept the ground in driving gust on gust, swept and besomed it bare of life.
Between the Lines
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Once, he even told a nosey old besom to mind her own business.
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"Oh, no, you don't, you old besom. You aren't getting rid of me that easily," Glory gasped at last, her voice hoarse with misuse.
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I left San Francisco blanketed in grey fog and besomed by a roaring wind; when I opened my eyes I was in a land of spacious sky and broad, clean sunshine.
The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
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Theobald replaced the meaningless epithet 'besom' by
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
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The dried flakes of yellow mud, first besomed and then brushed, raised such a dust, that in the dust, man and horse were lost.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2
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Other species of wood used include birch, which is made into besom for brooms and horse jumps and oak for rustic furniture.
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In the past, it was used to make besoms and brooms; even baskets were sometimes fashioned from its stems.
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Yet, at the very same time, it has already appeared from your argument that twelve hundred thousand will command only one barouche; that is, a barouche will at one and the same time be worth twelve hundred thousand besoms, and worth only one fourth part of that quantity.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2
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The Countess, still in her cloak, stood at the back door staring at Godfrey, who was in the yard scrubbing with an enormous besom.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Aye, sir, she Avad that, though I'm thinkin 'that she wad be kindlier wi' the besom-shank than Jess; no that I wad for a moment expect that there wad be ony call for siclike," he said, with a look of apology at Ralph, which was entirely lost on that young man, "but in case, sir -- in case --
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Children love to sweep up, and this small besom looks just like a grown-up one.
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His besom also seems to come from the East, where a figure "sweeping everything out" with a broom is the first vision produced in the crystal or liquid in the palm of a medium by the magicians of Egypt.
The Peace Egg and a Christmas Mumming Play
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The farmers are among the last producers of besom brooms in the country, after getting off to a flying start with the demand for traditional broomsticks sparked by the Harry Potter books and films.
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Then, as everyone stared at the old besom, the rapt silence was broken by the rolling thunder of a single cannon, setting the seabirds to wheeling and shrieking.
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Having finished at last, she took her besom to the door, and beat it against a stone.
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Heidi broke some straws from her besom and we lit all the candles anew.
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She realized that she had left her besom behind in the field, having forgotten it as the strange spirit had spirited her away from where the hole had been.
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Players have brooms, known as besoms, to sweep the ice clear of snow or debris so that nothing slows the passage of the stones.
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed
The Golden Bough
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed "thunder-besom" is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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Yon's twa weavers and a mason cursing the laird, and the man wi 'the besom is the Master of Crumnathie.
The Little Minister
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The spa offers a traditional Russian banya experience, involving a ritual of hot saunas, cold baths and an invigorating banya besom treatment—a stimulating massage using birch or oak twigs.
Latvia's Burgeoning Spa Scene
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She was a cunning old besom and had seen instantly through Janet and my efforts to be professional and pleasant.
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The Countess, still in her cloak, stood at the back door staring at Godfrey, who was in the yard scrubbing with an enormous besom.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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He followed this by sitting down and making a besom - a brush made from birch twigs.
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One Dorset broom maker was even making a special version of his household besom broom for the younger visitors - a Nimbus 2000, guaranteed to attract all Harry Potter fans!
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Fix up that dusty broomstick from the hall closet and use it for a besom.
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He followed this by sitting down and making a besom - a brush made from birch twigs.
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All good suits have "besom" pockets - that is, a narrow edge sewn in two lines around the slit.
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Other species of wood used include birch, which is made into besom for brooms and horse jumps and oak for rustic furniture.
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And in early America, African slaves invented a form of marriage, "besom wedding" or jumping the broom, in which a couple jumped over a broomstick stuck aslant in a doorway and declared themselves married.
Arlene M. Roberts: Committed: An Immigration Love Story
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed thunder-besom is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
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Its simplest form had probably been a kind of fagot of brushwood, -- _ramazza_, or a besom, not much unlike the rapid locomotive of witches, who were called in old times _ramassières_, from their supposed practice of riding on a _ramée_, _ramasse_, or besom.
Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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I tell you what, Catlaw, I met a man yestreen that kent your mither, and he says she was a feikie fushionless besom.
The Little Minister
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed “thunder-besom” is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
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They took the besom and threw it in the stove.
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Players have brooms, known as besoms, to sweep the ice clear of snow or debris so that nothing slows the passage of the stones.
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Note: [1] A besom is a long handled broom with the head made out of pieces of twig lashed together.
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