coventry

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I don't say that we could do anything; but as we should represent most of the large estates round here, I don't think old Jackson and his son would like being sent to coventry.

From With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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)

When he reached Charleston he was put into coventry.

From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore

One of Marion's modes of getting rid of worthless officers, was to put them into coventry.

From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore

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