coop up

That ten thousand peasants can coop up an equal number of the Kings trained troops is too monstrous for any sane mind to believe.

Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men, and you undo them.

While fitted with a propeller and rudder, and steers from a chicken-coop up front, she has no power.

You might as well coop up a lark in a hen-house and expect it to thrive and sing.

You're too valuable, though, to coop up in a penitentiary, and I'm going to buy you off.