How To Use Broomstick In A Sentence
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The village of Danvers was separated by only a mile or so of swale and swamp from Salem, a place that once rivaled Boston commercially, and in matters of black cats, and elderly women who aviated on broomsticks by night, set the world a pace.
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An hour later, a broomstick settled gently on the lawn.
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When I arrived, I was standing outside a normal brick house, there were no witches passing by or broomsticks parked in the garden, so I felt brave enough to knock on the door, the door was answered by a lady not much older than me, I was in shock!
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The numbers on the the broomstick are the jersey numbers of the Pittsburgh Penguins. 87 is Sidney Crosby; 71 is Evgeni Malkin; 55 is Sergei Gonchar; 28 is Eric Godard; 14 is Chris Kunitz.
Sporty Spice Cakes
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Today, the typical witch is generally portrayed as an old hag in a black robe, wearing a pointed black cap and flying on a broomstick across a full moon.
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And Narnia idealises the simple things in life, while the more up-to-date, affluent Harry drools over the latest must-have broomstick, the Nimbus 2000.
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The Swindon sweeper doesn't need a broomstick to weave his magic and cast his soccer spells, just pure genius.
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a sawed-off broomstick
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She's an aromatherapist, but she keeps a broomstick in her umbrella stand in her fourth floor flat.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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The first few games that were played, they actually put broomsticks up as the goalposts and had washing baskets.
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A huge witch, with her hooked nose, black cape and hat and broomstick stared out from an assortment of wonderful Hallowe'en creations, all made by the children.
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Then we'd collect withered dry leaves and cipins and light a bonfire around which we'd dance and make weird noises, dressed as witches and really imagining we were flying on broomsticks.
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His skin was smooth, he was on the small side, and his features were still boyish as he looked down over the worn end of the broomstick.
RUNNING FROM THE LAW
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This is a place where witches aren't green hags, flying broomsticks, and scaring children away.
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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.
Balcony Stories
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She's probably got a hooked nose, a pointed hat, a large black cauldron, a broomstick and a black cat.
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The broomstick snapped into five pieces, splinters and slivers flying everywhere.
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) But then this crazy thing happened: the Wicked Witch rode in on her broomstick and said yes, they should go.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The refreshment table including several cakes, two shaped like pumpkins, two like headstones, and one circular cake was like a full moon with a cleverly iced witch on a broomstick flying in front of it.
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That meant I played ball in the lots, swung a broomstick in a stickball game, shot baskets in the school yard until dark and starred in hide and seek because I could run fast.
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And the great lion lay and roared in helplessness, and at each prod exposed his nose more and lifted it higher, until, at the end, his red tongue ran out between his fangs and licked the boot resting none too gently on his neck, and, after that, licked the broomstick that had administered all the punishment.
CHAPTER XXVII
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It was a broomstick, to which she had attached an orange traffic cone, so that it looked like a giant candlesnuffer.
The Great Penguin Rescue
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Since the commercial triumph of Harry Potter, publishers have received sacks of manuscripts that are brimful of broomsticks, wands and magic spells.
Time travel saga The History Keepers could be the next Harry Potter-style blockbuster
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White witches are sorcerers for good rather than their broomstick-bearing evil sisters.
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Her great-grandmother had been born on a soil where the broomstick is a prominent factor in settling connubial differences; and if it occurred to her at this juncture, it is a satisfactory proof of the theory of atavism.
The Village Watch-Tower
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Hugging her upon arrival had been like embracing a closetful of broomsticks.
World Wide Mind
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Fix up that dusty broomstick from the hall closet and use it for a besom.
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As they walked further inside the park, they saw some witches flying around with broomsticks and wizards chasing them high up in the sky.
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The whole sabbat-familiar-broomstick thing was held to be imaginary, not real.
April 9th, 2009
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The key was simply inserted in the keyhole and then cranked around with the broomstick like a steam-engine crankhandle (see Diagrams 7 and 8).
Chapter 7 - First Approaches
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And in early America, African slaves invented a form of marriage, "besom wedding" or jumping the broom, in which a couple jumped over a broomstick stuck aslant in a doorway and declared themselves married.
Arlene M. Roberts: Committed: An Immigration Love Story
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The original "Fantastia" short, featuring Mickey Mouse battling enchanted broomsticks gone-wrong, was set to composer Paul Dukas '1897 piece "L'Apprenti sorcier" (Hello, public domain!) which was in-turn inspired by hundred-year-earlier poem of the same name.
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He proceeds on the principle that if you insist loudly enough that the broomstick between your legs is a pony, eventually the thing will whinny and gallop.
Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench
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The mode of jumping the broomstick was the general custom in the rural districts of the South, forty years ago; and, as there was no law whatever in regard to the marriage of slaves, this custom had as binding force with the negroes, as if they had been joined by a clergyman; the difference being the one was not so high-toned as the other.
My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
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According to German folklore, on April 30th witches fly their broomsticks to the mountains for a heathen festival, coinciding with the night the ancient deities conceived spring.
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An air - cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long - distance transportation.
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Two or three men intend to persuade you that they play on a broomstick, which is drolly brought in, carefully shrouded in a case, so as to be mistaken for a bassoon or bass-viol; but they succeed in nothing but the action.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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I bashed and pulled the broomstick railings out, revealing the sawed off bottoms of the old balusters and a thick layer of paint and something undefinable (distemper, maybe) in between them.
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The Auckland pair face charges of battering their 13-year-old son with a cordless telephone, an electric jug cord, a plank of wood, an extension cord, a broomstick handle and a rubber jandal.
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Flax-haired broomstick Hoccleve wrongly thought Geoffrey to be as moral a man as poor fretful Gower, and enshrined every half-baked piece of verse Geoffrey wrote in a hog's turd of unmeasured praise, whether it was a good Christly work or something that sank into sin.
A Complaint to His Purse
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He changed his mind - and not only because his son is benefiting from the so-called "broomstick" putter.
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No car, no broomstick, no other form of transportation came close to the ride that Kate had that morning.
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an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation
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Witches arrived on their broomsticks and skeletons travelled in large numbers to the party.
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The Swindon sweeper doesn't need a broomstick to weave his magic and cast his soccer spells, just pure genius.
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There were Dorothy look-alikes inspired by The Wizard of Oz, witches with broomsticks, and numerous bits of arbitrary, minimally edited business.
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Gryffindor seems headed for victory until Harry's broomstick turns into a bucking bronco.
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Maybe one day somebody will do right by the community, but at least this show portrays them as ‘good witches’ without a broomstick in sight.
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As they walked further inside the park, they saw some witches flying around with broomsticks and wizards chasing them high up the sky.
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Scaring off deer with a broomstick is one thing but killing a fawn with a shovel is just plain ridiculous.
Elderly Women Charged With Beating Fawn To Death
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When slaves got married they jus 'laid down the broom on the floor and the couple jined hands and jumped back-uds over the broomstick.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1
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She's an aromatherapist, but she keeps a broomstick in her umbrella stand in her fourth floor flat.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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A broomstick is too stiff, a fishing rod is too whippy.
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I mean, doesn't everyone think Witches are mythical old hags who ride broomsticks and turn princes into frogs?
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From Harry's look of worry before walking onto the field, to the unbelievable flying broomstick scenes, the audience immediately gets caught up in the match between Gryffindor and Slytherin.
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ANGRY BROOMSTICK yeah the title cue is amazing and dark, but that's the whole point of the story.
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The winner in the seven to 12 age group was Lea Eyre, with a picture of a witch on a broomstick.
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Last year, over dinner, I mentioned that the stereotype of witches flying on broomsticks came about because they used to make a hallucinogenic poultice from deadly nightshade.
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However, for most of us, Halloween is the night for witches and broomsticks, fire and black cats.
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Around the cities TV and billboards sporting witches on broomsticks and wild scary false faces, dominate the run up to the first of November 1st.
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Imprisoned, tortured, deprived of sleep and with heads shaved in the case of women, since it was believed witches’ familiar spirits clung to their hair when the beldames took to the air on broomsticks, the first people to be accused implicated others, often unintentionally.
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Opponents are given a stick, like a broomstick, which is grasped with both hands.
School, Church, and Home Games
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Of course if I came to a bad end, she'd need to swap her wand for a broomstick.
SOMEBODY
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He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about, trying to wrest it from Angela's grasp.
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The broomstick dipped its twiggy end and soared upward like a rocket.
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The broomstick and the pointy hat have been given the heave-ho but, according to Diana, there are still some telltale signs.
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Who hasn't staged an impromptu stand-off with an umbrella, broomstick or the nearest domestic appliance to hand?
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A six-metre high opening is known as the Witches Cave because the shadow cast by the lighting on the cave wall looks rather like a witch riding her broomstick.
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He's as well-shaped a broomstick as ever I see," said the farmer consideratively.
Say and Seal, Volume I
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I thank God witches are out of fashion," observes Lady Mary, in a letter to her daughter, when spicy gossip about her doings abroad had been circulated in London, "or I should expect to have it deponed, by several credible witnesses, that I had been seen flying through the air on a broomstick.
The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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An 'Pompey an' Sophy-Sophia dey didn't have no mo'n a broomstick weddin 'nohow -- but of co'se _dey did have de broomstick.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
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Quidditch players needed special trousers with seats fitted inside, so the rider could be harnessed to the broomstick.
Times, Sunday Times
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All manner of witch paraphernalia adorn the walls and bar - there are stained-glass witch windows and witches on broomsticks hanging from the ceilings.
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They wore long black cloaks and tall pointy black hats, and had crooked noses and rode on broomsticks, or else they drove around in large Daimlers, ordering their menservants to steal spotty dogs.
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Master Bob, you're mazed by some devilry or other; the wind's in your teeth; you've been sailing against a norwester, or have met with a witch on a broomstick the other side of this old oak: Serves an oak right to wither up -- why wasn't it made into a ship?
The Buccaneer A Tale
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He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about, trying to wrest it from Angela's grasp.
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The farmers are among the last producers of besom brooms in the country, after getting off to a flying start with the demand for traditional broomsticks sparked by the Harry Potter books and films.
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However, for most of us, Halloween is the night for witches and broomsticks, fire and black cats.
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We are little-known and therefore little-understood, and this is exacerbated by Pagans who insist on aligning us with mythical broomstick-flying wart-sporting hags.
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For maximum impact you must disperse speakers round the room, so that when Harry's broomstick zooms overhead, you will feel the whoosh.
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Yes, my mother used to break a broomstick over my head every other day!" replied Peter, the rogue, snorting.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
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The witches would fly to the meeting riding their broomsticks accompanied by black cats.
