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from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.Jowett Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along.Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey.Pope. How . . . proud he was to drive such a brother!Thackeray. He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.Sir P. Sidney. The trade of life can not be driven without partners.Collier. To drive the country, force the swains away.Dryden. Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or in front. It takes a variety of meanings, according to the objects by which it is followed; as, to drive an engine, to direct and regulate its motions; to drive logs, to keep them in the current of a river and direct them in their course; to drive feathers or down, to place them in a machine, which, by a current of air, drives off the lightest to one end, and collects them by themselves. "My thrice-driven bed of down." Shak. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest.Prescott. Time driveth onward fast,Tennyson. The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.Byron. The chaise drives to Mr. Draper's chambers.Thackeray. |
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