coventry

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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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

"I eats them," said Stella, reversing her small cauliflower-like person on the sofa till only a circle of white rims with a nucleus of coventry frilling, with two pink legs kicking gently upward, were visible.

From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary

When he reached Charleston he was put into coventry.

From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore

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 Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

I don't say that we could do anything; but as we should represent most of the large estates round here, I don't think old Jackson and his son would like being sent to coventry.

From With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)