| She was a cunning old besom and had seen instantly through Janet and my efforts to be professional and pleasant. |
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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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| It was the old besom who had stood behind the reception counter when she arrived. |
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| Children love to sweep up, and this small besom looks just like a grown-up one. |
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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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| Heidi broke some straws from her besom and we lit all the candles anew. |
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| I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. |
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| Once, he even told a nosey old besom to mind her own business. |
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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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| Brush in fine sand with a besom, and the grass will breathe more easily. |
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| Baba Yaga was riding in a mortar, using a pestle to urge it on, and sweeping away her tracks with a besom. |
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| Fix up that dusty broomstick from the hall closet and use it for a besom. |
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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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| 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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