Our people had settled there in large numbers, but now a mob had assembled in that city with the determination to drive them, not only from their homes and city, but from the State.
I found it difficult to drive from my mind the unpleasant impression this dream had made upon it, but finally succeeded in doing so, attributing it to the many and malicious threatenings which had been made by Lewis and his associates.
I endeavored to drive it from my thoughts, and did so.
Kentucky, a terrible persecution had commenced, and an effort was made to drive all colored persons from the place.
While I was staying with my master at Bath, he having little necessity for my services, hired me out to a man by the name of Joseph Robinson, for the purpose of learning me to drive a team.
In my hasty flight, I engaged the young man to conceal them till night, and then to drive them to a certain place where I would meet him.
Mr. Picknell came to talk about the plan with Miss Barbara Leicester, who was going to drive out to the farm in the afternoon, and then walk back with the club, as besought by Betty.
Perhaps there is somebody who would drive us there," said Betty.
Aunt Barbara had come to the station with them, and was taking the long drive home alone, with only Jonathan and the slow horses.
You could drive to the meetings and be head-member, Aunt Mary.
The whole becomes alive with cockroaches and other vermin, creeping over the patients; and the mosquitoes prey upon the unfortunate sufferer, or drive him mad with their unceasing humming preparatory to their attacks.
A number of carriages, filled with all the élite of Manilla, turn out on this drive a little before sunset, and the scene is very gay and exciting.
Dallisa commanded, "Drive the knives through his palms to the wall!
In some unrecognized fashion, I had done my best to drivehim away.
Between my grappling hand he twisted and I felt the skean drive home, rip through my jacket with a tearing sound; felt the thin fine line of touch, not pain yet, as it sliced flesh.
Even I could see that the blow was a feint, and I had a flashing, instantaneous memory of Dallisa's threat to drive the knife through my palms.
Why should that one night, that one act, have this uncanny power to drive her this way or that, to those arms or these?
He would start an opposition line, and either drive off the old line or effect a compromise.
As he had no money with which to buy a drove for himself, he did the next best thing; this was to induce the neighboring farmers to allow him to drive their cattle to market on a commission plan.
He could sit down before a mass of incoherent statements, and figures that would drive most men insane, and elucidate them by the most painstaking investigation, and feel a pleasure in the work.
To prevent the execution of this plan Jackson was ordered to drive the Federal forces out of the Shenandoah Valley and threaten Washington.
By a progressive study of this new business he soon produced a better article than was made by others, and so materially reduced the price as to drive out foreign competition from the American markets.
It was not, however, the policy of France to drive the United States into the arms of Great Britain.
The sound of the wheels had not ceased echoing on the gravel of the drive before Mary was out on the porch, which she illuminated by an overhead light.
Well, I candrive you to the railroad station," was the answer.
If, however, the fire is too brisk the vapor will enter the tube and drive out the liquor at d, and thus the level in the leg C will be less than in the leg D.
In other words, the phlegm or impure raw alcohol is only raised to such a temperature in the first column as to drive off the very volatile constituents such as the ethers.
Some of you have children who are a trial to you whenever you think of them; let them be such a trial to you that they drive you to incessant prayer for them, and, if the blessing comes, why should it not drop on them?
If they are resolved to drive the plough through doubts, and fears, and difficulties, till they come to salvation, they shall soon come to it by the grace of God.
All this may be so with you; your fears may be sent to drive you more swiftly and more closely to the Saviour, and if so, I see in these present sorrows the signs that God is blessing "the springing thereof.
He has to mend his fences, to drive away birds, to remove weeds, or to prevent floods.
But, lastly, how this should drive us to our knees.
Were you ever present at the scene when they drive them down to the brook?
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall driveit far from him.
You mentioned Tony Kytes as having been the one to drive your family and your goods to Casterbridge in his father's waggon when you left.
And as Bert stood up and looked around he let drive again, this time hitting Bert directly in the ear.
Here the road was rather narrow, so they had to drive close to the opening, now more than half filled with drifted snow.
The drive back to Lakeport was enjoyed as much as the drive to Dalton in the morning.
The hockey game was just the best ever, and so was the drive behind Rusher, even if we did get dumped out.
You are not to drive home until late this afternoon.
I have warned my husband not to let Bob drive him.
Day after day passed without the presence of the only one who could drive the dark cloud from her mind, and it was becoming every day more dense and oppressive, until she gave way to utter despondency, and bitterly bewailed her fate.
His demands in this part met at first with the usual hauteur of the General, who required that His Holiness should first drive from Rome all French emigres, and that he should expedite a Bull approving of the revolutionary government.
In its fear and cruelty it strove to induce the Grand Duke to drive the Pope out of his dominions, to which demand the noble sovereign answered that as he had not brought the Pope to Tuscany it was not for him to drive the Holy Father away.
If Ramler is not already engaged, he may perhaps drive her over.
Possibly I may come to town on Saturday, and if so you will perhaps drive out here with me at six o'clock in the evening?
You might take a fiacre and drive to the copyist's if you can spare time.
I love uprightness and integrity, and am of opinion that no one should drive a hard bargain with artists, for, alas!
They parted on the spot, when we had slowed down, Mrs. Jennings walking on alone the short distance to the gate, and Rosemary getting into the car with us, to drive to the house.
Our car running along the drive startled them from what seemed to be the most intimate talk.
Drive as fast as you dare without being held up," I ordered; and Timmins, lately demobbed from the Tank Corps, obeyed with violence.
I told my taxi man to drive at least as fast as the legal limit.
Again, sah, de suckamstance am dis: I happened to be in town when a stranger gen'man came 'long and hiahed me to drive him into de woods.
Too soon Frank discovered that the miserable schemer planned to drive him away from home, so he might more easily rob the lad's mother of her fortune.
Frank knew that it would take a loaded cannon to drive the trusty canine from the vicinity of his charge until he himself reappeared and gave the word.
It is a fine thing to know the men who drive the engines on these trains; just to see them is something, and to make them talk (if you can do it) is better business than interviewing most celebrities you have heard about.
We can build engines that will run a hundred and fifty miles an hour, but where shall we find the men to drive them?
I searched for the hammer and nail they had tied to me, and proceeded to drive the latter into the deck.
And see that man hang out in a noose of a rope, hang out over nothing, and drive in bolts.
There's a hole in her big enough to drive a team through," he protested; but already she was in the basket, and a great cheer arose.
And so great is the nerve-strain and brain-strain upon the men who drive our ordinary fliers, that three hours at a stretch is as much as the stanchest engineer can endure running at fifty or sixty miles an hour.
Drive her as he will, with all the cunning of his hand, Bullard can score but small gains against the wind.
My father must take me a drive in a sledge tomorrow," thought Joseph; and, thinking of his father, he wandered further and further.
At last Adam said, 'I will drive you home myself, Herr Pastor.
Drive slow as far as Harzeneck: be very careful, Otto: pray get out and walk up the hill at Otterzwang.
His wife implored him not to expose his life to danger for the sake of such a wicked old dragon: even by daylight it was dangerous at this time of year to drive to Roettmann's house, and how much worse by night!
That was odd because I thought I was about the only person in the Institute who could drive a land-vehicle.
Would you like me to drive the bubble-dancer to transportation?
During all the long drive not one word does Molly utter.
Once, during their last short drive from the station to Brooklyn, moved by compassion, he ventures to address her.
This has taken some time, more especially as the train was late and the back drive hilly; yet when at length he reaches his home he finds his wife and Molly still deep in the mysteries of the toilet.
In winter the gales sometimes drive it shoreward in such vast quantities that vessels are compelled to anchor outside of it.
Steptoe, while he was passing through their territory, because they had heard that the white men were going to build a road which would drive away the deer and the buffalo.
We expected to sail on the water; but our vessel drove through it, just as I have seen the snow-plough drive through the great drifts after a storm.
No white man could obtain it at any price, lest, by opening it with a knife instead of a stone, he should drive all following salmon from the river.
We went this morning to an Indian Tamáhnous (incantation), to drive away the evil spirits from a sick man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
