coventry
Example Sentences
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Confidence was universal, and the man who raised a warning voice found himself figuratively "sent to coventry."
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
"I eats them," said Stella, reversing her small cauliflower-like person on the sofa till only a circle of white rims with a nucleus of coventry frilling, with two pink legs kicking gently upward, were visible.
From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
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 Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
When he reached Charleston he was put into coventry.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
"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 H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
