Citations:coventried

English citations of coventried

• 1990, Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, Oxford University Press, USA →ISBN, page 148

  or "Oh, what a lovely dress!" 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, page 48

  “Coventried,” Kaz said once we'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't look half as good ...

• 2008, Rodney Monette, Road Worthy: Life Passages by Motorcycle, Trafford Publishing →ISBN, page 34

  This lead to the introduction of a new verb, to be 'coventried', 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's town.

• 2013, Andrew White, Father, Forgive: Reflections on Peacemaking, Monarch Books →ISBN, 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, —'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'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, "He was one of those who coventried me, but we do not speak of that now." 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't you ?" " Yes, I do," I agreed seriously , " but I think one other thing too, Ethelwyn. If only you wouldn't be quite so nice to — to people when they first come, it — they — things, you know, mightn't be ...

• 1948, Charles Foltz, The Masquerade in Spain

  Guernica was "Coventried" 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 "Coventried ," are frantic with woe : "It was all so horrible ... so many dead and wounded ... so many weeping." In the Ruhr Germans are particularly unnerved by air raids.

• 1907, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Little Esson

  You are a pretty fellow," began John Glen- cairn, aggressively ; " you're Coventried, d'ye hear ? You'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.