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Meanings of birch rod in English
Usage of birch rod in English
1
Keep the birch rod in mind; it's hanging behind the mirror.
2
But the old fairy with the birch rod soon undeceives them.
3
What care they for the ferule and birch rod now?
4
It wasn't an olive branch that the dove was carrying-itwas a birch rod!
5
Ah, Master Cheever has taken down that terrible birch rod!
6
In one hand St. Nicholas carried two large packages; in the other, a birch rod.
7
Flogging with a birch rod was used for discipline.
8
See, the birch rod has lost several of its twigs, and will hardly serve for another execution.
9
And finally there was nothing left but a huge birch rod, which reminded him of his childhood.
10
But a boy is so unexpected, there's no beating a boy, except with a good birch rod.
11
He hastened to Walter Skinner's horse, cut him loose from his tether, and struck him sharply with the birch rod.
12
In half an hour they were making momentary music under the avenging birch rod of Duncan Duncanson, the learned Dullarg schoolmaster.
13
The monks did not spare the birch rod, and soon it was a case of a whipping for every lesson not learned.
14
Very ugly Tom thought her, with her green spectacles on a great hooked nose and a big birch rod under her arm.
15
In the narrow crack between the oven and the wall rested always a birch rod, which was often referred to at critical moments.
16
Three strokes of a birch rod fell on each revolutionary, and not Ernest Churchouse nor his mother could console Abel for this reverse.