Citations:coventried


 * 1990, Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 9780195065770, page 148
 * or &quot;Oh, what a lovely dress!&quot; The British newspapers, adept as always at turning the serious trivial, devised many cute usages in aid of morale. One was the term  coventried to describe any place as bomb-ruined as Coventry. This led  untimately ...
 * 1852, Charles James Lever, The Daltons: Or, Three Roads in Life, page 118
 * As for Sydney and George, however, they have actually coventried me ; and although I anticipated many sacrifices when I married, this I certainly never  speculated upon. Lady Wallingcroft, indeed, warned me to a certain extent of  what I should ...
 * 2016, James R. Benn, Blue Madonna, Soho Press ISBN 9781616956431, page 48
 * “Coventried,” Kaz said once we&#39;d left the vacant heart of the city behind. “The Germans invented a new word to describe the total destruction of a city with high  explosives and firebombs. Coventriers.” “Lots of Kraut cities don&#39;t look half as  good ...
 * 2008, Rodney Monette, Road Worthy: Life Passages by Motorcycle, Trafford Publishing ISBN 9781425163815, page 34
 * This lead to the introduction of a new verb, to be &#39;coventried&#39;, or annihilated. West Bromwich occasionally also became a target. One of the worst bombings  occurred later in the war, and twenty nine people were killed in my mother&#39;s town.
 * 2013, Andrew White, Father, Forgive: Reflections on Peacemaking, Monarch Books ISBN 9780857212924, page 19
 * Such was the extent of the carnage that it gave rise to the expression “coventried” — meaning to be totally destroyed. The air raid was carried out by 515 German  bombers and was codenamed Operation M ondscheinsonate (Moonlight ...
 * 1834, Martin Archer Shee, Cecil Hyde: A Novel, page 268
 * Being therefore, in some degree, coventried by all parties,—saints and sinners, —&#39;rigorists and latitudinarians,—she was of opinion that a journey to Palestine  offered the best resource, and the most graceful mode of escape from the raillery  of ...
 * 1880, John Hill Burton, A History of the Reign of Queen Anne, page 279
 * ... to State matters I ne&#39;er trouble my head — and shall be spoken while I have a tongue, though all the devils in hell and incarnate conspire to stifle it, — nay,  though I were sure to be cudgelled or Coventried, or have my throat cut the next  hour.
 * 1929, Duke University. Library, Bulletin
 * Speaking of another Rear Admiral, he wrote, &quot;He was one of those who coventried me, but we do not speak of that now.&quot; It was plain to see, however, that  Mahan still felt the sting of it. Comments made in these letters are frequently ...
 * 1941, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings
 * ... unwilling to exercise the necessary authority to correct this industrial totalitarianism that is as grievous to us as the totalitarianism of Europe is contrary  to democratic ideals. Economically, we are still being Coventried. It is  encouraging, then, ...
 * 1902, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature
 * I think he deserves to be Coventried — don&#39;t you ?&quot; &quot; Yes, I do,&quot; I agreed seriously, &quot; but I think one other thing too, Ethelwyn. If only you wouldn&#39;t be quite so nice to — to people when they first come, it — they — things, you know, mightn&#39;t be ...
 * 1948, Charles Foltz, The Masquerade in Spain
 * Guernica was &quot;Coventried&quot; as thoroughly as Coventry itself while the people of that English town were taking only a passing interest in the headlines about an  obscure Basque town. I did not see the bombing of Guernica, but I walked  through ...
 * 1942, Frank Leslie, Miriam Florence (Folline) Leslie, Ellery Sedgwick, John Sanborn Phillips, John MacAlpine Siddall, The American Magazine
 * Letters from Rostock and Lubec on the Baltic, two towns the RAF has &quot;Coventried ,&quot; are frantic with woe : &quot;It was all so horrible ... so many dead and wounded ... so many weeping.&quot; In the Ruhr Germans are particularly unnerved by air raids.
 * 1907, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Little Esson
 * You are a pretty fellow,&quot; began John Glen- cairn, aggressively ; &quot; you&#39;re Coventried, d&#39;ye hear ? You&#39;re quodded ! I wondered what was up when I saw  you sneak past my place like Brer Fox off to the nearest chicken coop. And spying  up on the ...
 * 1978, Ezra Pound, "Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II, Greenwood Press
 * ... caught in the tweezers of the attempt; but that continent largely has NOT. French bon sens showed itself at the last minute. They declined to have Paris  completely coventried, in order to hold off the German advance for six days or  whatever.