sending to Coventry

You deserve sending to Coventry by everybody.”

"Do this—Refrain from that," are the blank formulas into which they may all be written: and in each case the understanding is that obedience will bring approbation here and paradise hereafter; while disobedience will entail imprisonment, or sending to Coventry, or eternal torments, as the case may be.

Nothing is worse for the Eastern traveller than the habit of "sending to Coventry:"—it does away with all manner of discipline.