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Coventry

noun

The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent). Synonyms: banishment, ostracism.

An industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century.

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"Coventry" Quotes from Famous Books

... I couldn't put up my umbrella. The frame would not work for one thing, and if it had worked, I would not have put the thing up, for I would no more be seen under such a travesty of an umbrella than Falstaff would be seen marching through Coventry with his regiment of ragamuffins. The fact is, the umbrella is not my umbrella at all. It is the umbrella of some person who I hope will read these lines. He has got my silk umbrella. I have got the cotton one he left in exchange. I imagine him flaunting along the Strand under ...

— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)

... from the field with a bullet in his head, to linger for six weeks before death came to his relief. Lieutenant Waterman stood resolute at the head of his company with his arm bandaged and bleeding. Lieutenant Harkness limped painfully along disabled by a spent bullet. John H. Hunt of Coventry had his side torn open by an explosion, and his sufferings were intense. It was strange that he didn't die instantly, yet he lingered for seven days. John Martin fell dead at the final volley from the Rebels. Old Button ...

— The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion • George P. Bissell

... miscellany appears, Shakespeare finds his name alone upon the title-page, and remonstrates. But, of the defrauded ones, Marlowe is dead; Barnefield has retired to live the life of a country gentleman in Shropshire; Griffin dwells in Coventry (where he died, three years later). These are the men injured; and if they cannot, or will not, move in the business, Shakespeare (whose case at law would be more difficult) can hardly be expected to. So he contents himself with strong expressions ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... We'd all refuse to wear the new tams. You seniors and juniors would have a nice time sending us all to Coventry, wouldn't you? If you didn't want to eat with us, you'd all go hungry for a long time before the freshmen would do as ...

— Ruth Fielding At College - or The Missing Examination Papers • Alice B. Emerson

... repeated half-absently, "I take it that amount of gas will just about carry you back to Coventry; it won't allow for any detours, to be sure, but if you follow the straight road it ought to fetch you up there ...

— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett

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