ferule
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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
"But it was not as a knight of the ferule that you won this mark of distinction?" laughed the captain, touching a fluttering badge which depended from the chevalier's button-hole.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore
"His ferule was sharp as a knife," said overgrown Jo Tucker, the butt of the school.
From Harper's Young People, May 25, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
“There, there, there!” said the vicar, impatiently, as he placed the obnoxious ferule upon the floor, and pressed it down there with both hands.
From A Little World by George Manville Fenn
He has his volunteer Bodyguard of Tappe-durs, let us say Strike-sharps, fierce Patriots with feruled sticks; and Jacobins kissing the hem of his garment.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The mouth-piece is made of a circlet of silk-grass, and the farther end is feruled with a kind of nut, forming a sight.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
For another full minute he stared down at the girl, but he apparently had no longer any thought of feruling her.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
“I thank you, Mamie,” said she at last; and she stroked the little hand given to her so loyally for the sacrificial feruling, but she turned her eyes away.
From Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story by Mrs. S. S. Robbins
