coventry
Example Sentences
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I don't intend Miss Briggs shall leave college, or be sent to coventry either.
From Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
"Are the fellows trying to send us to coventry?" demanded Dodge.
From The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
I've just heard, from Trotter, that a good many of the fellows in our class are scorching me, and talking of sending me to coventry.
From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
They were being put in coventry and the diabolical mind that was thus taking its fiendish revenge could be none other than the man he had wronged—Hickey Hicks.
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Ernest Fuhr
She had received signs of what might lead to partial coventry on the part of a number of upper class students.
From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Pauline Lester
