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Updated: June 4, 2025
It'll be Jock this and Jock that both but and ben all day long, and whatever is the use of all this tirley-wirly I can't see, when on Monday the house will look as if it had never seen the sight of a besom! I'll just bide where I am." He closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.
"But, please, North Wind, I knew London was very big, but I didn't know it was so big as this. It seems as if we should never get away from it." "We are going round and round, else we should have left it long ago." "Is this the way you sweep, North Wind?" "Yes; I go round and round with my great besom." "Please, would you mind going a little slower, for I want to see the streets?"
I remember her grandfather he was th' eldest o' us he quarrelled wi' his wife afore they'd been married a week, and she raced him all over th' town wi' a besom 'With a besom, uncle? exclaimed Harold, shocked at these family disclosures. 'Wi' a besom, said Dan. That come o' reasoning wi' a woman. It taught him a lesson, I can tell thee.
"She's a good daughter," broke in the father through his tears; but his Gaelic never stopped the minister. "An ignorant besom." "She's leech-wife to half Kenmore," protested the old man.
This remissness, culpable as it certainly was in a matter of such importance, was freely attributed to the most sinister motives. "These Orders in Council were designedly concealed from Mr. Rose, although they had long been deliberated upon, and almost matured, before he left London. They were the besom which was intended to sweep, and would have swept, our commerce from the ocean.
This deadly disease came from Asia. It is said to have originated in China, spreading over the great continent westwardly, and descending in all its destructive virulence upon Europe, which continent it swept as with the besom of destruction.
My winds are life-giving breezes to-day, and the besom of destruction to-morrow; my rains will moisten and nourish you one day, and wash you into the gulf the next; my earthquakes will bury your cities as if they were ant-hills. So you must take your chances, but the chances are on your side. I am not all tempest, or flood, or fire, or earthquake.
Brethren! if we trust Christ we may 'hope perfectly. If we do not trust Him our firmest hopes are as spiders' webs that are swept away by a besom; and our deepest desires remain unfulfilled. 'Only believe, then, on the one side, 'Fear not, and on the other side 'Hope ever. II. We have here a word of revelation which softens the grimness of death.
The city is built in blocks, on the American system; the wide thoroughfares cross each other at right-angles, and all of them could be swept as with a besom by a few guns en barbette behind a breastwork at either end. In this sort of work, accuracy of aim is not called for, as in that warfare up in the mountains. If it were, not much reliance could be placed on the Republican artillery.
Her mither is an able besom, and her young ladyship is verra deep. What I'm hearin' on the ither side o' the hedge is that she's trying to get round ye so as to get a pardon for Sir John, and to let him come home from Holland. No, Claverhouse, ye maunna be angry wi' me, for I've waited on ye longer than ye mind, and I canna help bein' anxious.
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