'Down amang the broom, the broom, Down amang the broom, my dearie, The lassie lost her silken snood, That gard her greet till she was wearie.'"英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
Almost at the same moment there burst out of a remote room--the nursery--an upright, fair, noble boy, of some five years old, who began careering along on the corridor, astride upon a hearth-broom. She did not need to be told it was her boy, Archibald; his likeness to Mr. Carlyle would have proclaimed it, even if her heart had not. In an impulse of unrestrainable tenderness, she seized the child, as he was galloping past her, and carried him into her room, broom and all.英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
"Hold up!" cried Ben. "Broom or no broom, the English conquered him at last. I remember all about it now. He was killed somewhere on the Dutch coast in an engagement in which the English fleet was victorious. Too bad," he added maliciously, "wasn't it?"英文原著 · 《Hans Brinker》
"Ts--ts--ts." She laid him on the settle and went back to her floor- washing. He never ceased crying for a moment, but she got quite used to it and kept time with her broom. Oh, how tired she was! Oh, the heavy broom handle and the burning spot just at the back of her neck that ached so, and a funny little fluttering feeling just at the back of her waistband, as though something were going to break.英文原著 · 《In a German Pension》
That tall one's a spider, and the other's a broom. There! Do you hear me? A /spider/ and a /broom/!"
Ezekiel's merry eyes met the anxious ones with a twinkle. "Who'd have thought it!" he responded. "Now then, Zeke," anxiously, "it's my responsibility. I recommended you. I want you should say 'em off as glib as Fanshaw did.英文原著 · 《Jewel》
Pen's, told me that Alexander Broome, [Alexander Broome, an attorney in the Lord Mayor's Court, author of "Loyal Songs and Madrigals," much sung by the Cavaliers, and of a translation of Horace. He was regretted as an agreeable companion.] the great song-maker, is lately dead.英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
My new roommates, the broom and the mop, don't sneak around looking at my stuff.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Well, maybe your new broommate will hold back your hair when you drink too much.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
But even still, I'm tempted to broom your ass.美剧 · 《Billions》
You wanna grab that broom handle and stand in?美剧 · 《Billions》