He took the birch rod from his belt and offered it to Blue.

The priest picked up a peeled birch rod from the seat beside him.

I fell sprawling on the carpet as he caught up the bundle of birch rods.

He hit us with a razor strop, birch rods, anything close to hand."

Thomas' stepfather brought him up with "a Bible in one hand and a birch rod in the other".

Fasces are a bundle of birch rods containing an axe.

This attacker would approach lone women in the countryside, and beat them on the buttocks with a birch rod.

Ask how many birch rods my seniors broke trying to retrain my attitude.

They also had to know how to mend quill pens and wield birch rods.

Also like other public schools, Dyne mercilessly flogged the pupils with a birch rod.

We'll go to the greenwood, our domain, our paradise, to cut birch rods."

The long birch rod swished viciously down across Rona's pinioned posterior.

Then she whirled about, whipping a birch rod from her voluminous robe and slamming it down across a young man's knuckles.

He affected to despise all games, believing solely in the virtues of Virgil, Homer and the birch rod.

The portrait was a real historic curio showing McNab disciplining his wife with a birch rod.

Another factor in the severity of a birch rod is its size - i.e. its length, weight and number of branches.

He suspected that if they knew what he was doing, it would be like being home with Father again, only now it wouldn't be birch rods.

Birching is a corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically applied to the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally to the back and/or shoulders.

Grammar was the most basic part of the trivium and the Liberal arts - in artistic personifications Grammar's attribute was the birch rod.

The fasces were cylindrical bundles of red-dyed birch rods tightly bound together in a crisscross pattern by red leather thongs.

A birch rod (often shortened to "birch") is a bundle of leafless twigs bound together to form an implement for administering corporal punishment.

The Dutch St. Nicholas was an ambivalent figure: He was lean and solemn, and he gave bad children birch rods.

It consists of a balsam fir or birch rod mounted outdoors which twists upwards in low humidity and downwards in high-humidity environments.

However, its reception was dominated by satirical comments on Mahler's unconventional percussion effects-the use of a wooden mallet, birch rods and a huge square bass drum.

Loates once narrowly escaped death when falling in the Liverpool Cup on Lord Derby's race mare Birch Rod.