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ferule

[fer-uhl, -ool] / ˈfɛr əl, -ul /






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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 Flora J. (Flora Juliette) Cooke

The ferule always lies upon the teacher’s desk, and serves also as a tally.

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

Jenny used to sit for hours together in St. James's Park, scratching aimlessly upon the gravel with the ferule of her parasol.

From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie

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




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