Van Tromp was so elated, that he stuck a besom at his masthead, intimating that he would sweep the English from off the seas.
Herbert was the chief admiral, much to the chagrin of the Dutch admirals, but very wisely so determined by William, who well knew the hereditary jealousy of the Dutch fleet, and the remembered boast and besom of Van Tromp in England.
It was a sight to see him flitting about the torch-lit barn, with a kettle of hot water in one hand and a besom to sweep up crumbs in the other.
The laird was alleged to have taken from the land of Teuchbusses sufficient broom to make a besom thereof, and I am not certain that the case is settled to this day.
His sword, stiff and light, was a good long, stout cudgel of pinewood, at the end of which there was a besom of branches of the same tree.
One cannot help wondering why the use of the besom should have been abandoned.
Saadat, who will see in me Achmet Pasha, who did with Egypt what he willed, and was swept away by the besom in thy hand?
Excellency, all in one night, the besom of destruction was abroad," he heard Nahoum say, as though from great depths below him.
Away with ye, rascals and worthless that ye are, or I will beat you with my besom stick.
I would I had them here, I would trounce them with my besom handle.
A Hercules with a big besom is a fine thing for a filthy stable, but not for weeding a seed-bed, where his besom would soon make a barren floor.
In the genus Erica, one of the commonest species is the Besom Heath (E.
Some think that the "Besom of Devotion" referred to by Colgan, is only the Litany or Prayer of St. Colgan, under another name.
When the dreaded eyes turned from her, she got up and went softly to the corner where Sister Tobias's besom stood, and took it and began to sweep, casting terrified glances through her hair at her two Fates.
The young man has been a besom of fire and burnt up everything.
Armageddon, the battle of the nations, will be fought, and the world will be swept with the besom of destruction under the seven last plagues.
The ungodly cities of our world are to be swept away by the besom of destruction.
What is't to buy a new besom or twa frae a tinkler body, whan ye see the auld yin gettin' bare?
This precise result is presented to the mind by the melancholy review of the last campaign; disease and death have walked abroad in our armies on the frontier; they have been swept to the grave as by the besom of destruction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
