For weeks before that the boys and lads have been collecting old brooms, and when the time comes they sally forth and dance with the burning besoms on the fields; the fire is thought to ban the witches and foul fiends.
Very often, too, the village youth turn out in a body and drive the witches away with the cracking of whips, the firing of guns, and the waving of burning besoms through the air, not to mention shouts and noises of all sorts.
The nobles and warriors fled before him, carrying blood-stained besoms of couchgrass, but turned to look back at him from time to time and smote upon their shields as if to bid him come on.
A new idea seemed to strike her; and she abruptly asked the farmers if either or both missed any of their besoms or riddles.
In Bohemia they say that the corn will grow as high as they fling the blazing besoms into the air.
Often the boys collect all the worn-out besomsthey can get hold of, dip them in pitch, and having set them on fire wave them about or throw them high into the air.
Kuhn says in several parts of Westphalia, at Shrovetide, cows' horns are decorated with white besoms with white handles.
Have these white besoms any relationship to those ornamental ones formerly much hawked in England by German peasant girls, who likewise sung in the streets the once popular song, "Buy a broom?
As he walked on he passed the little house where the Spae-Woman had her besoms and heather-stalks.
They went to Morag and struck her with the besomsthey had for sweeping the floor.
The Spae-Woman had brought besoms to the town to sell.
The besomsand three-legged stools took the right form of the women, and prevented a too early discovery.
Those besoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made.
If these besoms were known to the brushmakers in town, it is probable they might come much in use for the purpose above-mentioned.
If these besoms were known to the brushmakers in town, it is probable they might come much in use for the purpose above mentioned.
Thus on Easter Monday in some parts of Middle Franken the schoolboys collect all the old worn-out besoms they can lay hands on, and march with them in a long procession to a neighbouring height.
In Austrian Silesia the custom also prevails of lighting great bonfires on hilltops on Midsummer Eve, and here too the boys swing blazing besoms or hurl them high in the air, while they shout and leap and dance wildly.
To the printless margin go, Where sea besoms twice a day Swish, and swirl, and hissing spray, Purge all mortal taint away, There the fairy children play.
Your sea besoms twice a day Swish, and swirl, and hissing spray, Brush all mortal taint away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besoms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
