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
Think of the old Quaker teacher, Caleb Johnson, trying to ferule a few ideas into Robert Fulton's head!
From The Child's Book of American Biography by Stimpson, Mary Stoyell
When a child was sent to school in those days, the classic phrase was that he was placed under Mr. So-and-so's ferule.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
He handled a ferule while the Miserere lasted, although he did not, on account of the entreaties of those who were present, strike the capitulars with it.
