broom

• I feel creepy She gathered up her dust cloths and broom, and Hortense went reluctantly with her Do show me the attic, Mary," Hortense pleaded Not to-day," said Mary firmly. —  The Cat in Grandfather's House
• Yet the blows went home pretty hard, and as the broom was a sort of besom made of the springy ribs of the palm-leaf it stung sharply where it found the naked flesh It is a great indignity to be beaten by the broom of a sweeper, and Piroo, maddened with rage, flew at the throat of his rival. —  Adventures in Many Lands
• Them's all set edgewise like butcher's broom, and pretty stuff that is But they don't all grow that way Oh yes, they do, sir. —  The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range
• They grow here a large quantity of what is called the broom corn: the stalk and leaves are similar to the maize or Indian corn, but, instead of the ear, it throws out, at top and on the sides, spiky plumes on which seed is carried. —  Diary in America, Series One
• He saw a poor boy at a crossing brushing the pavement industriously with an old broom, and then holding out his hand to the people passing by, in hopes that some of them would give him a halfpenny. —  Rollo in Holland

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