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

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)

The man's face was almost hidden by his cap and by the blue puffs of his pipe; the girl's was averted towards the ground where, with the ferule of her umbrella, she lazily drew signs.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel