"Ferule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... basket and the cage Had household gods the same. The bird's sharp beak full oft provoked the cat, Who play'd in turn, but with a gentle pat, His wee friend sparing with a merry laugh, Not punishing his faults by half. In short, he scrupled much the harm, Should he with points his ferule arm. The sparrow, less discreet than he, With dagger beak made very free. Sir Cat, a person wise and staid, Excused the warmth with which he play'd: For 'tis full half of friendship's art To take no joke in serious part. Familiar since they saw the light, Mere habit kept their ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... your hands now, and I shall ferule thee—the whole school," was the stern remark of the young teacher, as she took off her ...
— Little Prudy's Sister Susy • Sophie May
... holding the spy's walking stick, ferule end upward. It was a rather long, slender-looking ferrule of steel. But what interested young Benson most was that he had found that the ferrule ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Spies - Dodging the Sharks of the Deep • Victor G. Durham
... rule, even the ferule, which must be made of two strips of leather, ten to twelve inches long, sewed together. All offenses, and the number and location of the blows for each, were specified. Later the corporal punishment was ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... application at his desk in the village school was an unheard-of consequence; and, having repeatedly smarted under the schoolmaster's ferule, not to mention his good mother's switches plucked from the big lilac bush by her door, he decided to run away to the great harbor, and ship upon some vessel bound ...
— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
... Puritan parents, that sparing the rod spoiled the child, and great latitude was given in punishment; the rod and ferule were fiercely and frequently plied "with lamming and with whipping, and such benefits of nature" as in English schools of the same date. When young men were publicly whipped in colleges, children were sure to be well trained in smaller schools. Every ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... little friend, you are just let loose from school, and come hither to scrub your blooming face, and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule, and other schoolboy troubles, in a draught from the Town Pump. Take it, pure as the current of your young life; take it, and may your heart and tongue never be scorched with a fiercer ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast,—-could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy? Oh, gigantic paradox, too utterly ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe |
