Opponents are given a stick, like a broomstick, which is grasped with both hands. From Wordnik.com. [School, Church, and Home Games] Reference
But I wagged my tail, and Puss jumped over the broomstick. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
She took good care to keep the broomstick from about my head. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
But she turned quickly and pointed the broomstick directly at. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
A broomstick showed itself aggressively in one fat shiny hand. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
She might speak to Mrs. Burnett, but how about that broomstick?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
At one point, the flute is a telescope and the bassoon, a broomstick. From Wordnik.com. [Imani Winds Hits Its Mark on 'Josephine Baker'] Reference
As she flew over his head, he grabbed the tail end of her broomstick. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
Just jumped the broomstick and goes to living with somebody else I reckon. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference
Another was given a broomstick and told to hunt game in the woods before him. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
Inside hung an old broomstick for a roost, and a row of three covered nesting boxes. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicken Chronicles] Reference
"We's prepared fer um ter day," said a woman, coming forward and brandishing a broomstick. From Wordnik.com. [Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.] Reference
Mr. BROWN: It depicts a wedding-type ceremony with someone about to jump over a broomstick. From Wordnik.com. ['Picturing The Banjo' Through American History] Reference
One of them is provided with a stick about the size of a broomstick and about two feet long. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
Or Rhee scaring black voters by posing on the cover of Time magazine with her broomstick?. From Wordnik.com. [DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 22, 2010] Reference
This may be made by whittling branches, or a gymnasium wand or piece of broomstick may be used. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
"I tell you you will all be off on Miss Dorothy's broomstick one of these fine days," growled Bob. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
He always writes as if he used a broomstick for a pen, and then wiped his sleeve over the wet ink! '. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
As soon as he had opened the door a broomstick fell upon his shoulders and a woman's voice shrieked. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
Though her fears of scaring off Christians are valid, risking the broomstick vote is beyond foolish. From Wordnik.com. [Toil and Trouble in Delaware] Reference
A broomstick was placed across the room and she was told that it was a man who intended to injure her. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
"If we choose a broomstick," predicted M.P. Limor Livnat of Netanyahu's Likud faction, "Barak will lose.". From Wordnik.com. [Girding For The Battle] Reference
Half a broomstick, with a small pumpkin attached to one end, formed the framework of Miss Leece's effigy. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
In the background, peeping out from behind a screen, is the shoemaker's wife, with a broomstick in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
I have ridden pretty much everything from a broomstick to a bronco, but this was my first experience with huskies. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
Thus harassed, I appealed to the stewardess -- a tall sour-looking woman, flat and thin as a dressed-up broomstick. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Miniature Twin Elliptic type should be of stouter stuff, say a broomstick; that of the Goold apparatus stouter still. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
The broomstick was about three feet from Dorothy's face when she turned it up slightly, barely missing Dorothy's head. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
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