I forgot the word "dustpan" because I needed to get one and so I wrote "broom thingie" on my shopping list. From Wordnik.com. [miss-k2 Diary Entry] Reference
I'll even use the dustpan and brush if you like. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]
History is waiting for him with a broom and dustpan. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow America] Reference
Lily set the dustpan on the floor and began sweeping. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
Anne, get the dustpan and sweep up the hair on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Five Have Plenty Of Fun]
"He wasn't looking this way when he emptied that dustpan.". From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference
She opened the closet and brought out a broom and dustpan. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
Oliver passed him, on a dustpan, the fragments of an old box. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
She let the dustpan lie and propped the broom against the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Wait For The Sunrise]
Talons clutched a broom in one foot and a dustpan in the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Twaddles obediently seized the dustpan and the long-handled broom. From Wordnik.com. [Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island] Reference
She went back into the alley and picked up the dustpan and blouse. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
“Allow me,” de Gier said, and picked up a dustpan and a brush. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Hawker]
Lily stood with the broom in one hand and the dustpan in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
That also seemed to remind her of the dustpan, which she picked up. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
At least I knew it was a dry spill, bring the broom and the dustpan. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 7] Reference
The dustpan and Lily's purple blouse lay in the center of the alley. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
dustpan after dustpan full of dirt was gathered up and tossed into the lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat] Reference
He grabbed his broom and his dustpan, put on some shoes to protect his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
I was about to fetch the broom and dustpan when Iris peeked around the corner. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
I go downstairs to wake up my rooomate and tell her to get a dustpan and broom. From Wordnik.com. [toastcrumbs Diary Entry] Reference
She turned away and went to a cupboard from which she took a broom and dustpan. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
Almost immediately the father entered from the yard with a dustpan full of coals. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
He'd swept it into his wooden dustpan and had been meaning all week to throw it out. From Wordnik.com. [Kendermore]
Lilah stared down into the glass-filled dustpan that Pete had tried to hide from her. From Wordnik.com. [Adam's Fall]
He stood like a housemaid with dustpan and broom to gather up the wreckage of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The broom and dustpan were gone, having been replaced by a rag and a bottle of amber liquid. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Lily made a face as she held the dustpan at arm's length over the Dumpster and shook it hard. From Wordnik.com. [Lunatics]
Dolores Couteiro Pep Torres in his studio; above right, the designer's brush-cleaning dustpan. From Wordnik.com. [Inventing for Maximum Media Impact] Reference
The broom and dustpan were designer reproductions of the old tin and wood and cornstalk originals. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun from Under Water] Reference
What the dustpan held wasn't the first thing he noticed, however much he wished it would have been. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
"Okay," he said, leaning the broom and dustpan against the stoop, knowing he would never see them again. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
Tommy had gotten a broom and a dustpan and was already raising a cloud of dust by her efforts at sweeping. From Wordnik.com. [The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat] Reference
"I don't know, ma," she said, looking for the shovel, which, when it could be located, served as a dustpan. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
The sound of the brush striking sharply and with metallic distinctness on a dustpan came from the room beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
It was a chair car, and the porter had evidently been doing some sweeping, for he held in his hands a dustpan. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference
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