coventry

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But I've heard mutterings to the effect that your class will send you to coventry for excessive zeal in greasing, to the detriment of your classmates.

From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Confidence was universal, and the man who raised a warning voice found himself figuratively "sent to coventry."

From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland

One of Marion's modes of getting rid of worthless officers, was to put them into coventry.

From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore

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)

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 Fuhr, Ernest