whisk-broom

• “When the number reaches eight he aims a spurt from his chaw and prepares to take his whisk-broom to the rubber slab.”

  Simon & Schuster: Underworld

• “Everything obvious was sparkling clean; the only cobwebs in this chamber were higher than a tall man could reach with a whisk-broom, up among the carved ceiling beams.”

  With a Single Spell

• “The early spring foal teetered unsteadily on bandy legs, its whisk-broom of a tail rotating wildly for balance.”

  Simon & Schuster: This Calder Sky

• “The Space-Scourge bore the device of a mailed fist clutching a comet by the head; it looked more like a whisk-broom than a scourge.”

  Space Viking

• “The most silent creature known to me, he makes no sound, so far as I have observed, save a diffuse, impatient noise, like that produced by beating your hand with a whisk-broom, when the farm-dog has discovered his retreat in the stone fence.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866

• “The scorched high chair, in which the child was tied and put before the open fireplace, while the mother went to a neighbor's for milk, lay in a pool of water, and beside it, the burnt whisk-broom that an older baby had put in the fire, then dropped blazing under the baby's long clothes, these told the whole sad story.”

  The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889

• “When on the third day the tooth-brush, nail-file, whisk-broom, etc., had been duly used, he asked: "Say, mister, air you always that much trouble to you'se'f?”

  More Toasts

• “Finally she handed Jim her new whisk-broom with a capable air, and presented straight little shoulders to be brushed.”

  The Story of Julia Page

• “Then she covered it up with a white wedding blanket, and then she take whisk-broom and she patted with the broom, in time to her singing, on this doll figure, and it began to live and grow larger.”

  The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi

• “That infallible harbinger of an approaching terminal, the colored porter, had appeared in the doorway, whisk-broom in hand, when -- suddenly -- there was a grinding jar; the heavy coach trembled through its length, and from forward came a muffled roar followed by the tearing crash of riven metal.”

  The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest

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