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)

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)

"Are the fellows trying to send us to coventry?" demanded Dodge.

From The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron 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

I don't intend Miss Briggs shall leave college, or be sent to coventry either.

From Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]