She puts me in mind of the story of the persistent broomstickthat would fetch water," said Harry; "we are likely to be drowned out by her.
The Broomstick Train" a hundred and forty-six lines to the conceit "The Salem Witches furnish the power for the trolley cars.
The broomstick was the orthodox old English style of aerial courses; but, as I have before said, an unguent was necessary.
This was rubbed over the body, or upon a broomstick or dungfork, and hey, presto!
There in that corner is the verybroomstick she used to ride through the air upon!
That, however, which alarmed Barney most, was an oldbroomstick with a stump of worn broom attached to the end of it, as it stood in an opposite corner.
Although the woman confessed her guilt, she was dismissed by the Quaker magistrate with the assurance that, as there was no law against it, she might ride a broomstick as often as she pleased.
Molly Owens, that was his foster-mother, saw the fairies bear him off on a broomstick up the chimney.
They sat the Mayor on a mound, took off his hat, placed a crown on his head and a broomstick in his hand, and brought him the cases to try.
He's as well-shaped a broomstick as ever I see," said the farmer consideratively.
Illustration: "Catch a gleam from her wicked eye"] Remember my rhymes when you ride again On the rattling rail by the broomstick train!
She who rides on a broomstickat the midnight hour, when no one is abroad, over hill and vale, over moor and dale!
She mounted herbroomstick and rode about, shouting a weird song.
A broomstick bomb during this morning provided an example of the scriptural warning that "the one shall be taken and the other left.
Clearing his eyes he discovered the ruined remains of his repast, and, lying between his legs, an unexploded broomstick bomb that had glanced off the opposite wall of the communication trench and slid into the excavation.
On this day, and on the 27th, the Turk showered quite a considerable number of the broomstick bombs into the position.
The Turkish weapon was known as the "broomstick bomb" and was also propelled from a mortar.
Remember my rhymes when you ride again On the rattling rail by the broomstick train!
She went out last night, and I was so angered that I charged her with galloping a broomstick home.
I thought perhaps one had taught you, inasmuch as you have naught to say against the gentry that ride the broomstick of a night.
Think ye Goodwife Martha Corey gallops a broomstick to the hill of a night, with her decent petticoats flapping?
One of them is provided with a stick about the size of a broomstick and about two feet long.
This may be made by whittling branches, or a gymnasium wand or piece ofbroomstick may be used.
Her great-grandmother had been born on a soil where the broomstick is a prominent factor in settling connubial differences; and if it occurred to her at this juncture, it is a satisfactory proof of the theory of atavism.
He cried out ‘Jesus’ and crossed himself, upon which all vanished except a woman called Pelter, whose broomstick dropped, and who was then carried off by a whirlwind.
Women dosed themselves with this drug, or applied it in ointments, and forthwith had hallucinations ofbroomstick rides and witch dances.
She looked so like a witch, from grief and fright, that as she disappeared, the people looking after her were sure she had mounted the broomstick the very next moment, and had flown over the tops of the houses.
I'm goin' to slip across into her room now, and see if I can't find the broomstick that she rides around on at night.
Step high, children, every one of you, when you come to this broomstick lying across the door-sill.
She heard the voices of the children outside, the bang of the broomstickagainst the door, and then plunging forward, felt herself falling--falling!
She says that she can go through keyholes, and that on dark nights she sails away over the chimney on a broomstick with a black cat on her shoulder.
Dungeness Point in an eggshell, or careering on her broomstick over Dymchurch Wall.
A broomstick is what she'll be flying away on one of these nights, you mark my word," a nurse declared.
It was as though a huge giant had suddenly lifted him up by the seat of his breeches, or a witch had transplanted him on to her broomstick and carried him off.
The last I saw of our army was Voss or Huss marching loudly away, broomstick held aloft, against the burg, in the midst of a crew of some eight or ten.
Yes, did you never hear of the man who had a broomstick that would fetch pails of water at his bidding?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broomstick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corpse; shadow; skeleton; slim; twiggy
