ferule

Kassad blinked as she raised a gold ferule and touched his chest.

No mere ferule will answer for this offence.

Moneta brought a violet oval into existence with a golden ferule from her belt.

His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now - at least among the smaller pupils.

Bazin did more than bound; he let fall both his alphabet and his ferule.

Scott then picked up a ferule that lay beside his throne and pointed to the various military establishments throughout the South.

"I thought I was under the ferule of my professor, and developing a subject of amplification."

The ferule, or the birch-rod, was in those days the assistant schoolmaster, and young Barnum made its acquaintance.

With the staff's unshod ferule, the Napatan prodded the study door, lifting the bronze latch.

The inverted compass, which was fastened by a copper ferule to the woodwork of the cabin, broke off and fell on the floor.

Khamwas pounded it with the ferule of his staff, breaking off scales of ivory without doing anything to get them through the doorway.

Its gold ferule glittered.

"We can't go on talking," the botanist begins, and ducks aside just in time to save his eye from the ferule of a stupidly held umbrella.

He rapped the ferule of his staff on the floor, a sharp sound that contained no information useful -at least-to the caravan master.

- This gentleman is famous for his tail which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes.

"Well, sir ..." Vaguely, Scott gestured with his ferule, which in turn reminded him of the map.

The cane, the birch and the ferule, a flat board also used to beat children and 'adults in a servile condition', were the teacher's badges.

A splendid Jupiter, with hair well set up off the fine brow, ambrosial beard, silver thunderbolts in one hand, and a well-worn ferule in the other.

He did his duty conscientiously by constant, unremitting care, and he emphasized his teaching by frequent appeals to the ferule".

Later, walking together through the shattered beauty of the Crystal Monolith, she touched him once with a golden ferule, once More with a blue torus.

The Latin name Ferula derives in part from Ferule which is a schoolmaster's rod, such as a cane, stick, or flat piece of wood, used in punishing children.

Don't think for a moment he was content with a birch ferule or even a cat, no, he demanded a bundle of osier switches wherewith very barbarously one had to tear his buttocks.

This allows AS-Interface modules to be installed anywhere on the network without cutting and preparing (i.e. removing cable jacket, stripping insulation and possibly applying a ferule) the cable first.

Let me ask you sir,' he added, bringing the ferule of his stick heavily upon the deck with the air of a man who must not be equivocated with, 'how do you like my Country?' '

"You shall ferule me in the good old-fashioned way; I seldom do it myself, but it may make you remember better to give me pain than to feel it yourself."