coop up

Example Sentences

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I got tuh let her go,’ he says, ‘Dad’s all in an’ I’ll have tuh coop up under Old Glory for awhile, anyway.

From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.

“Yes, Tom, and they’re having a taste of what it means to coop up fellow-creatures below hatches like cattle.”

From The Black Bar by M.L.P.

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

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various

He dragged the lath coop up on the side.

From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Tolman, Albert Walter

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

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)