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're too valuable, though, to coop up in a penitentiary, and I'm going to buy you off.
From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph
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
“Yes, Tom, and they’re having a taste of what it means to coop up fellow-creatures below hatches like cattle.”
From The Black Bar by M.L.P.
"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 Perram, Annie Frances
