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)

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

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

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)

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