Thou hast never practised riding a broomstick?

A villager was said to have long struggled to hold her from them, but at last they prevailed, and he found nothing in his hands but a broomstick.

I thank God witches are out of fashion, or I should expect to have it deposed, by several credible witnesses, that I had been seen flying through the air on a broomstick, &c. I am really sick with vexation.

Though it be but a broomstick, it will open all the magic casements of earth and heaven, it will surround us with the choirs invisible, and send us forth into green pastures and by the cool water-brooks.

and, when he classes despotism and slavery with adiaphora, "things indifferent;" and allows no more moral character to them than to a table or a broomstick, I trust no good man envies his optics.

She commanded her to do so; the girl quickened her pace; again she was ordered to move faster, or, Mrs. M. declared, she would break the broomstick over her head.

The owner sold her to his owner and they jumped over a broomstick and were married.

When you want to get married you jump over the broomstick.

It is so good to look through the dimness and uncertainty, moral and physical, and to meet those little black, steadfast, all-seeing eyes; to feel those smooth, soft, all-soothing hands; to hear, across one's sleep, that three-footed stepthe flat-soled left foot, the tiptoe right, and the padded end of the broomstick; and when one is so wakeful and restless and thought-driven, to have another's story given one.

Hobbling on a broomstick, with, no doubt, the same weird, wizened face as now, an innate sense of the fitness of things must have suggested the kerchief tied around her big head, and the burlaps rag of an apron in front of her linsey-woolsey rag of a gown, and the bit of broken pipe-stem in the corner of her mouth, where the pipe should have been, and where it was in after years.

She could study over her lameness, she could in the dull course of time think out the broomstick way of palliation.

She hobbled out into the street, leaning on her nine-year-old broomstick (she had grown only slightly beyond it; could still use it by bending over it), her head tied in a rag kerchief, a rag for a gown, a rag for an apron.

Broomstick, Life of a, ii. 389.

Broomstick and snowflake.

Broomstick and snowflake, from the Norwegian.

Broomstick and snowflake.

They had been made by swinging a barrel hoop from a broomstick handle, by means of a number of ribbon-like strips of cloth.

"Find the thole-pins, Bill, while I cut a plug for her bottom out of this broomstick," Wade said.

The sweet-corn was marked off from the rest by a broomstick,and all took root alike in my heart.

There may have been, there probably was, an abundance of sweet-corn, but the broomstick that had marked the spot was lost, and I could in no wise recall either spot or stick.

When a writer has got a name, the first rational use to make of the charming possession is to get astride of it, as a witch upon her broomstick, and whisk and scamper over half the kingdoms of the earth.

Dry smug as can't 'andle a gun, I'll bet Marlboro' 'Ouse to a broomstick, and ain't got no notion of Fun.

Molly Owens, that was his foster-mother, saw the fairies bear him off on a broomstick up the chimney.

Even as children the very sight of Martha Browning's solemn face"Peregrine drew his countenance down into a portentous length"her horror at the slightest word or sport, her stiff broomstick carriage, all impelled me to the most impish tricks.

If I am to have a broomstick, I had rather ride off on one at once to the Witches' Sabbath on the Wartburg than be tied to one for life.