These just appeal to our most basic and ferule instincts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2002] Reference

"That's the most hoyden jade I'm sure you ever gave the ferule to.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

They make use of neither ferule nor threats, yet they achieve everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now — at least among the smaller pupils.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference

This gentleman is famous for his tail which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference

Some discussion arose, when, with the ferule in his hand, he directed me to hold out mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Nevertheless, it looked so foul on presentation to the ferule that the teacher sharply protested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

They are masters who instruct us without rod or ferule, without angry words, without clothes or money.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury] Reference

“The leathern ferule played its terrible role with honour” among Minions, Smalls, Mediums, and Greats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

And is not that emblem of omniscience and authority, the schoolmaster's ferule, directly of the cane family?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference

And whenever I made a point, I rapped it on the pavement with the ferule of my walking stick; as one would say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

She even exaggerated, pinched her lips, like a school-girl applying herself to her book for fear of the ferule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

Those sweet blue eyes, swimming in tears, were ever before me; the repeated strokes of the hard ferule kept sounding in my ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference

At the return of peace, having no longer exercise for the sword, he resumed the ferule, and drilled the urchin populace of Lissoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference

And chanting she turned, the bronze ferule tracing a circle on the stone precisely as a geometer could have graven with a compass.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]

I jumped from the wagon, and, tying my handkerchief to the ferule of my umbrella, advanced, waving it and shouting, "A flag of truce!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

"I'd like to ferule yours," he gritted between his set teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Car Behind] Reference

He gave another round, bringing the ferule down with great force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winning His Way] Reference

He held out his right hand, and received the blow from a heavy ferule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winning His Way] Reference

Bazin did more than bound; he let fall both his alphabet and his ferule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference

Our recommendation is, that you erase it before the arrival of the ferule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Down came the hard-wood ferule, whizzing through the air like a thing of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Grandmother] Reference

His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now -- at least among the smaller pupils.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5.] Reference

This gentleman is famous for his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

No; it was the thought of the master, that dreadful man with the ferule and the birch sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Grandmother] Reference

"I thought I was under the ferule of my professor, and developing a subject of amplification.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference

From that moment his ferule was broken, and the school-committee very soon had a vacancy to fill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Venner] Reference

He had a stick in his hand, which seemed to be armed at the lower end with a little ferule of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rollo in London] Reference

And from the rod or ferule I would have them free, as from the menace of them; for it is both deformed and servile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems] Reference

Thoreau had tried schoolteaching, but he had to give up his position because he would not exercise the birch and ferule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference

And what way is more natural, under such circumstances, than to resort to the use of the ferule, the rod, and the strap!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes] Reference

He exposed you to the contempt of your school-fellows because of a breach in my correspondence with a base-born ferule-swinger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

'If he'll bring us the atmosphere of the groves of Academe, he may swing his ferule pickled in himself, and welcome,' said Fenellan.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference