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

She even exaggerated, pinched her lips, like a school-girl applying herself to her book for fear of the ferule.

From The Bill-Toppers by Castaigne, J. André

But the ordinary public chastisement was the bastinado, a stroke or two on the palm with that almost obsolete weapon now, the ferule.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various

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 Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.