birch-rod

Fairy with the birch-rod will catch them all in time, and make them begin at one corner of their shops, and eat their way out at the other: by which time they will have got such stomach-aches as will cure them of poisoning little children.

The Water Babies 2007

Indeed, she was so ugly that Tom was tempted to make faces at her: but did not; for he did not admire the look of the birch-rod under her arm.

The Water Babies 2007

And she had on a black bonnet, and a black shawl, and no crinoline at all; and a pair of large green spectacles, and a great hooked nose, hooked so much that the bridge of it stood quite up above her eyebrows; and under her arm she carried a great birch-rod.

The Water Babies 2007

A well-educated, cultured gentleman and his wife beat their own child with a birch-rod, a girl of seven.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

This horse was bred on the farm here; he is the produce of a gray mare that you may recollect my father mounted on in our birch-rod days.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

'A uniform rod '(it is a marvellous act of mercy that the examiner invented it _uniform_; it is strange that its thickness did not vary in some complicated manner, and become a veritable birch-rod!)' of length

The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. P. Hampson

But then, just see the power of the birch-rod: I knew well that much time would pass before my patron would notice my absence; and before the sergeant was informed, and people were dispatched to pursue me, more time would pass.

In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

And she had on a black bonnet, and a black shawl, and no crinoline at all, and a pair of large green spectacles, and a great hooked nose, hooked so much that the bridge of it stood quite up above her eyebrows; and under her arm she carried a great birch-rod.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Had a birch-rod been lying near me, I should have kissed it with fear and respect.

In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

There are many ex-Cantonists who cannot forget the birch-rod, for instance.

In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg