And the Queen did more than contribute money: orders for work were sent from Windsor Castle, Osborne and Balmoral; and the blind people delighted in saying that they were making brooms for the Queen.

In Bohemia, for instance, the young men collect for some weeks beforehand as many worn-out brooms as they can lay their hands on.

Then the remaining 3 to 4 women would help with brooms, baskets and spades.

The young hall-girls shivered on the upper landing, and stepped back in a sheltered niche in which the brooms were hanging.

Ah, give me these new brooms that sweep clean!"

"Your old brooms, like Lord Vieuxbois, were new brooms once, and swept well enough five hundred years ago," said Stangrave, who had that filial reverence for English antiquity which sits so gracefully upon many highly educated and far-sighted Americans.

"Your old brooms, like Lord Vieuxbois, were new brooms once, and swept well enough five hundred years ago," said Stangrave, who had that filial reverence for English antiquity which sits so gracefully upon many highly educated and far-sighted Americans.

Then she turned, with Aunt Lucile, to such practical matters as bedding, brooms and tea-kettles.

The country abounded in trees, yet tables, chairs, boxes, cart wheels, bowls, birch brooms, all came from the mother country.

A trip on a muddy river, whose banks are fringed with a leafless forest resembling a huge store of Brobdignagian stable brooms, may be favourable to reflection; but, if description be attempted, there is danger lest the brooms sweep the ideas into the muddy water of dulness.

A trip on a muddy river, whose banks are fringed with a leafless forest resembling a huge store of Brobdignagian stable brooms, may be favourable to reflection; but, if description be attempted, there is danger lest the brooms sweep the ideas into the muddy water of dulness.

Brooms and water were set to work immediately, but it was a month before the Henlopen lost the peculiar odour of the cattle.

And the fairies like their home so scrup'lous clean; There are fairy dusters hanging from the sumach as you pass; Tiny drops are dripping still from overhead; Broken fairy-brooms are lying near the fir-tree on the grass, Though the fairies went an hour ago to bed.

The women who cleaned it in the mornings with their brooms were always obliging him to flee from his office.

He took his breakfast at a little table in the vestibule, read the newspaper, had to go to the door in order to avoid the morning cleaning, pursued by the dust of brooms and shaken rugs.

Stories about the cup and the lip and the bad penny and the new broom rarely have anything to do with cups and lips and pennies and brooms.

It was a small closet for brooms and dust cloths and such things.

The following are some of the most essential: Two dish pans; two or more papier-maché tubs for washing glassware; one kneading board; one bread board; one pair scales, with weights; scrubbing and stove brushes; brooms; dustpans; roller for towel; washbowl; soap dish; vegetable brushes.

She sweeps with many-colored brooms, And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond!

And still she plies her spotted brooms, And still the aprons fly,

Till brooms fade softly into stars

[The burning wheels rolled down hills and the burning discs and brooms thrown into the air may be intended to burn the invisible witches.]

We had no made brooms; we just bound broom corn tops together and used them for brooms and brushes.

We had no made brooms; we just bound broom corn tops together and used them for brooms and brushes.

1 Cit. Why, pray thee? 2 Cit. Why you can have nothing there, there's no body cryes brooms.