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

If he should curve his elbow in the least, it would get a rap from the master's ferule.

From Little Grandmother by May, Sophie

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 The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

He had a stick in his hand, which seemed to be armed at the lower end with a little ferule of iron.

From Rollo in London by Abbott, Jacob