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 Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
When he reached Charleston he was put into coventry.
From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore
"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
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 Lester, Pauline
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
