coventry
Example Sentences
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"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 Mary Cholmondeley
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
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
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 H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
When he reached Charleston he was put into coventry.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
