With one accord the guests turned and streamed in the direction of the gardens, turning to right and to left, peering beneath bushes, poking delicately among the foliage of flower-beds with the ferules of walking- sticks and parasols...
"A College Girl"
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
When knives are so cleaned, see that they are carefully polished, wiped, and with a good edge, the ferules and prongs free from dirt, and place them in the basket with the handles all one way.
"The Book of Household Management"
Mrs. Isabella Beeton
It was by their ferules that I always knew them, and they me.
"Autobiography of Anthony Trollope"
Anthony Trollope