coop up
Example Sentences
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He dragged the lath coop up on the side.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Albert Walter Tolman
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
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 Robert J. C. Stead
"It would be a downright shame to coop up the children in a close school-room when they might be enjoying themselves in the bright sunshine," said Mr. Gale.
From For John's Sake and Other Stories. by Annie Frances Perram
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
