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a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children

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The master looks at his great silver watch, and then, with tiresome deliberation, puts the ferule into his desk.

Enjoy your playtime now, and come again to study and to feel the birch rod and the ferule to-morrow; not till to-morrow; for to-day is Thursday lecture; and, ever since the settlement of Massachusetts, there has been no school on Thursday afternoons.

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Une reprise prevue aujourd'hui sous la ferule d'un nouveau staff technique, a savoir le Francais Alain Portes et son adjoint l'Algerien Tahar Labane.

Handball/Alain Portes (Selectionneur national) :"Remettre la selection a la place qu'elle merite"

She is a great schoolmistress, as many a poor fellow knows, that hath held his hand out to her ferule, and whimpered over his lesson before her awful chair.

Eighteenth-century allusions in Henry Esmond

The teaching sub-system includes functions such as teaching demonstration, homework submitting, answer, class replay, electronics ferule, remote cinema and voice function (Magazzeni, L., 2016).

Study on multimedia teaching platform of "Principles of Management" based on cloud computing

These stocks are all original Gl, with all the metal--buttplate, liner (except Syn), sling swivels, and ferule (except Syn).

Fred's military M14 rifle stocks

Ancienne residence du chef des Services municipaux de la ville dont l'architecte est Pierre Bousquet (1885-1954), cette ecole est nee en septembre 1950 a la veille de l'independance, sous la ferule d'un groupe de Francais desireux de mettre en place un espace pedagogique pour les jeunes dotes d'une sensibilite artistique difficile a developper en l'absence d'un vrai encadrement.

L'enseignement se deroule conformement au statut de l'ecole

Le monde arabe n'accepte plus d'etre sous la ferule de dictateurs.

14-01-2014 : Rached Ghannouchi au journal suisse Le Temps : Il y a une specificite tunisienne

S'y raconte une Martinique sous la ferule de l'amiral Robert, envoye par le gouvernement vychiste de Petain au debut des annees quarante, au moment du blocus americain.

Inter-oceanic passages: from the French Antilles to Madagascar and back/Memoires d'oceans et d'Ailleurs: traversees interoceaniques

On a peu vu la joie de la liberation du joug d'une majorite oppressante sous la ferule d'un chef de gouvernement dominateur.

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