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Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men, and you undo them.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various

“Yes, Tom, and they’re having a taste of what it means to coop up fellow-creatures below hatches like cattle.”

From The Black Bar by M.L.P.

You're too valuable, though, to coop up in a penitentiary, and I'm going to buy you off.

From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

By occupying all the posts of Egypt, we can coop up the French and force them to capitulate.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland

The task was a hard one, however, and though Rundle succeeded in holding his line intact, it appeared to be impossible in that wide country to coop up altogether an enemy so mobile.

From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir




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