One of the slaves, a nearly naked boy looking to be in his late teens, was down on his hands and knees with a small whiskbroom sweeping the carpet set before the entrance to the bedroom. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He made short, hesitant strokes with the broom, then put the broom down painfully, leaning it against the cart; he then reached into the cart, and picked up a whiskbroom and a dustpan. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1994)
Sometimes I would be down mere standing inside the door jumping up and down in my gray jacket with the whiskbroom in the pocket, and the manager would have to come and shout at me that I had customers upstairs. ❋ X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 (1964)
"Here, you can take over the whiskbroom," he said, "just two or three licks-but let 'em feel it." ❋ X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 (1964)
"James Citty" have been explored; yet a significant amount of information has been revealed by trowel and whiskbroom and careful recording. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)
Now remove the wire from the whiskbroom and sprinkle with baking soda. ❋ Noah [pseud.] Lott (N/A)
He made use of his own comb and brush, tooth-brush, nail-file and whiskbroom. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
But Jim stopped the performance by suddenly imprisoning girl and whiskbroom in his arms. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
After that, she brushed crumbs out of the beds with a whiskbroom and rubbed a few backs with alcohol, and smoothed the counterpanes, and hung over Johnny's unconscious figure for a little while, giving motherly pats to his flat pillow and worrying considerably because there was so little about him to remind her of the Johnny she knew at home. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
There, mindful of the fact that he had come from the contagious pavilion, the minister brushed his shabby smoking-coat with a whiskbroom to remove the germs! ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
First of all, after Her Majesty had risen, the bedclothes were taken out into the courtyard by the eunuchs and aired, then the bed, which was made of beautifully carved wood, was brushed off with a sort of whiskbroom, and a piece of felt placed over it. ❋ Princess Der Ling (1915)
And with this shot he fled, to see what transformation he could effect with the aid of a whiskbroom, a tin pan of alkali water and a roller towel. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)
She was on her knees with dustpan and whiskbroom, cleaning up the fragments of glass on the stained carpet. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
In the latter case, one longs to throw a whiskbroom at the head of the entering guest, longs to have it hit him, brush end on. ❋ Anna Chapin Ray (1905)
With a whiskbroom, Carter brushed off any dirt still clinging to the treasures, and piled them up on a table. ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
