coop up
Example Sentences
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I got tuh let her go,’ he says, ‘Dad’s all in an’ I’ll have tuh coop up under Old Glory for awhile, anyway.
From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.
You might as well coop up a lark in a hen-house and expect it to thrive and sing.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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
He dragged the lath coop up on the side.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Tolman, Albert Walter
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
