ferule
Example Sentences
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A kind of miracle happened: the ferule of the teacher became the poet's magic wand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yen picked up his ferule and hit it like a student.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
He went straight to Zeus’ throne and filled a ferule with it, and carried it to his people.
From Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children by Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette)
People said the steel ferule of the umbrella had attracted the electric current.
From My Little Sister by Robins, Elizabeth
When a child was sent to school in those days, the classic phrase was that he was placed under Mr. So-and-so's ferule.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
