Brooms
[bru:mz]
Examples
- At one time seventeen skilled workmen would manufacture five hundred dozen brooms per week. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Then when the broom-sewing machines and other inventions got fairly to work, nine men would turn out twelve hundred dozen brooms per week. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is only by such machines which treat the entire article from the first to the last step, that the immense number of brooms now necessary to supply the market are made. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The fronds are wrought into baskets, brooms, mats, sacks and many other useful articles; and the trunks are made into boats, and furnish timber for the construction of houses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The men standing on both sides of the rollers have only to wipe off the plates with brooms and occasionally turn the plates. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We don't mean to say much about them yet, because we are such very new brooms, but we don't intend to be idle. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- All members to appear in uniform and shoulder their brooms at nine precisely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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