coventry
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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
One of Marion's modes of getting rid of worthless officers, was to put them into coventry.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
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
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
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
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