58 Verbs to Use for the Word broom

I for a minute left the room To listen to the "Buy a broom,"

"There is a difference, but I cannot tell," answered Hannah Straight Tree, taking down her broom in puzzled moodiness.

There was an old woman tossed in a basket, Seventeen times as high as the moon; But where she was going no mortal could tell, For under her arm she carried a broom.

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.

He would hang his lantern on a hook, and get his milking stool, and if the cows did not step aside just to suit him, he would seize a broom or fork, and beat them cruelly.

Miss Payne had used ordinary dolls' heads, but had constructed the bodies herself in such a way that the dolls could sit and stand, and use their arms to wield a broom or hold the baby.

I nearly dropped my broom.

He took my hands off, and told BISMARCK to bring him a wisp-broom.

I have seen her catch up the broom to pound potatoes in the pot.

Two of them met in Reading market once, and fell out: "'How ever do you manage to sell your brooms for three halfpence?

Her home had virtually been broken up, she had become decrepit, a mere bundle of rags, unable even to handle a broom.

Some of them have been cured of truant playing by corporal punishment, when all other means I could devise have failed, others by means the most simple, such as causing the child to hold a broom for a given time.

When admitted, he looked about for the boxes, but not seeing them, picked up the broom and placing it with the splints down, beneath the banana, he tried to climb it, but as it fell over with him, he abandoned this after a few trials, went to his cage, and picking up some old bags which he used at night as covers, he dragged them out and placed them on the floor beneath the banana.

She brush us all out wid the broom, tell us go build a play house.

After this victory Tromp placed a broom at his masthead, as if to intimate that he would sweep the Channel free of all English ships.

They found three old brooms, and be-gan to play soldier,Tom first, then Jack, with Meg last of all.

Hence, in Hamburg, sailors, after long toiling against a contrary wind, on meeting another ship sailing in an opposite direction, throw an old broom before the vessel, believing thereby to reverse the wind.

The doddering old scavengers, plying their brooms among the great trees of the avenues, bore so strong a resemblance to the pixies who lurk in caves and woods, that we almost expected to see them vanish into some crevice in the gnarled roots of the trunks.

The most dressy sailorman I ever knew, he continued, as he stood the broom up in a corner and seated himself on a keg, was a young feller named Rupert Brown.

It's ruthless, yes; let him make good, Or else it grabs its broom

He had left his broom for a hurried half-pint at the "Bull's Head"left it leaning in a negligent attitude against the warehouse-wall; now, lashed to the top of the crane at the jetty end, it pointed its soiled bristles towards the evening sky and defied capture.

They want their black alpacky that's in the closet, an' the lookin' glass that's on the mantelpiece, or the feather duster that's hangin' on the winder, an' will you jest pass out the broom that's behind the door?

Our forefathers preferred a broom of birch; as if, in the master's absence, it was well to remember the rod.

The western mistletoe is most common on the branches, where it produces "witches' broom."

He pulled an electric broom from the back of his closet and began pushing it back and forth across the carpet.

58 Verbs to Use for the Word  broom