From the land unto the cellar, Clean the peasant's hut he keeps, With a coarse and clumsy besom Every tiny crumb he sweeps.
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
The Great Seattle Fire June 6th, 1889, will ever be a memorable day in the history of Seattle-that being the day of the Great Fire which, like a besom of destruction swept out of existence a goodly portion of the embryo city.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Happily, the garden was neglected, otherwise the besom of the gardener would have swept away all traces of the highway they had made.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies