ferule

Example Sentences

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Yen picked up his ferule and hit it like a student.

From Literature

A kind of miracle happened: the ferule of the teacher became the poet's magic wand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Previously to this, during his nominal rule in the Netherlands, his visit to Spain, and his candidature for the Empire, he seemed, as it was said, spell-bound under the ferule of his minister Chi�vres.

From Project Gutenberg

He then walked twice around him; having done which he confronted him again, thumped the ferule of his umbrella on the floor, and says he: "Well!"

From Project Gutenberg

The scholars simply bar the front door, and amuse themselves in using the teacher’s ferule for a bat, and the Trimetrical Classic, or the Confucian Analects, for a ball.

From Project Gutenberg