During the weeks when his men had seemed so quiet and had given the Mountjoys scarcely a chance for a long bowshot, might they not have been driving such a tunnel under their very feet?
Cedric," he whispered, painfully, "canst thou forgive me my words of harshness and my driving thee forth from thy home?
With an oath he spurred on in the hope of driving the lion from his prey--his rifle was ready in his hand.
He saw it pierce the tender flesh, driving its way deep into the yielding body.
Hanson grinned, for he recalled the pounding heels that he had seen driving sharp spurs into the flanks of Baynes' mount; but he said nothing of what he had seen.
Well, you can't have failed to see what I'm driving at.
And although I was driving the big car up Park Lane for Oxford Street and the road to the West, I did feel as if I were in a dream.
The engineer and fireman were busy trying to get the bent driving rod loose from where it had jammed up somewhere in the interior of the locomotive.
Beware, beware, I say, of driving me to extremities!
Some of the Papuans unite the life of a new-born child sympathetically with that of a tree by driving a pebble into the bark of the tree.
Rome, ceremony ofdriving out the old Mars from, ii.
On one day of the festival the ceremony of driving away evil spirits from the village took place.
On asking what that was for, I was told that the basket contained her treasures, that she would probably want to take something out the next day, and that she was driving off the bu-ku-ru.
A Westphalian form of the expulsion of evil is the driving out the Suentevoegel, Sunnenvoegel, or Sommervoegel, i.
Again, the custom of carrying lighted brands round the cattle is plainly equivalent to driving the animals through the fire.
Miaotse, ceremony of driving away the devil by the, ii.
In the Boehmer Wald mountains, between Bohemia and Bavaria, when two peasants are driving home their corn together, they race against each other to see who shall get home first.
The custom of drivingcattle through a fire is not confined to Europe.
Amongst the Miaotse of China, when the eldest son of the house attains the age of seven years, a ceremony called "driving away the devil" takes place.
This uproar, repeated on three successive nights, is thought to be very effective indriving away the cholera demons.
There you are; down it goes," he continued, taking the little rammer from where it was strapped to the carriage and driving the bag home on to the top of the loose charge.
I don't like knocking about in strange places begging for a cargo, and I don't like driving my brig through the sea light in ballast.
If the thymus retrogresses after the second year, what takes its place as a brake upon the forward driving impulses of the other endocrines?
They make, at a certain level, good slave drivers because they feel within themselves a driving force.
November is nearly upon us, and we shiver under leaden clouds and driving rain.
And once driving at night in the orange groves of Ghezireh, after some open-air fête, the heavy scent and intoxicating atmosphere had made her blood tingle.
A line of pans, sluggish with weight, had lagged behind in the driving wind of the day before, and was now closing in upon the lighter fragments of the pack, which had fled in advance and crowded the bay.
She changed the subject abruptly, and only returned to it when John was driving home with her.
He left the theater with only his hat in his hand, turning up his coat by instinct as he passed through the driving rain.
Malone thought he detected a note of pride in the man's voice, and shot a glance at Boyd, but the agent was driving with a serene face and an economy of motion.
And later on, when we were driving here, she said the spy was 'moving around.
There would be pleasure as well as profit indriving this old girl to Los Angeles, he told himself.
Cash told him many things out of his past, while they poked along, driving the packed burros before them.
He had driven too long and too constantly to tire easily, and he was almost tempted to settle down to sheer enjoyment in driving such a car.
Papago Indian boy about 18 on fine bay mare driving 4 ponies watered at our well.
For there is to be added another very strong improbability, namely that, while he was driving the carriage with such velocity that it seemed to fly rather than to run, he could see their mutual kissing by looking backward.
Another very great improbability is added thereto--namely, that while he was driving the carriage with such velocity that it rather seemed to fly than advance swiftly, he could not have looked back to see such mutual kissing.
Especially since his word is shown to be too much prejudiced; for he swears that, while he was driving the carriage swiftly at night time, he saw Francesca Pompilia and the Canon kissing each other.
There are some fourteen ponies in the drift, and three young fellows with long whips are driving them.
Slieve League is on our right, but we can only see the lower slopes of it, for the cairn is completely covered with driving mist.
The wind was quiet, and there was a great stir of traffic on the road--men with creels, horses and carts, asses and children driving them.
Why is it these sea-skirted islands Are plagued with perpetual chills, Driving men to Italian or Nile-lands From Albion's ills?
White the lamb's wool as the Gotchi-- The great Gotchi, driving snowstorm.
He met a coachman driving a coach So slow that his fare grew sick; But he let him stray on his tedious way, For Death only wars on the quick.
She thrilled to the swift motion of the car, and to the knowledge that the imperturbable audacity of his driving was a man’s tribute to her presence.
Canterton was not driving the car so strenuously, but was letting her slide along lazily at fifteen miles an hour.
Mrs. Carfax bowed in her chair like some elderly queen driving through London.
She was glad when the loading up business was over, and she was driving away between the dull little houses.
On the failure of a sliver the hook of (I) engages with (J) and dislocates the driving gear.
All the bosses of one line of rollers were connected so that one driving gear would serve for the whole length, and all the spindles were driven by bands from a central cylinder.
Pauline came out a moment later, drawing on her driving gloves.
Here we are," her uncle exclaimed, as Patience appeared, driving Bedelia.
I feel like a story-book girl, going driving this time in the morning, in a trap like this.
The roads were rough and hard, and the man who was driving them said a word now and again to his young master as to the expediency of getting frost nails put into the horse's shoes.
It was on that day that Sir Thomas had been driving about in the pony-carriage with Lady Fitzgerald, as Richard had reported.
You've the knack of driving the thoughts clean out of a man's head.
Then you think that it is our condemnation of sin that is driving the people to America.
It was the day before Christmas Day, and I was driving the doctor; he saw something, a small white thing gliding along the road, and he was that scared that the hair rose up and went through his cap.
I really don't think--" The sounds of wheels were heard, and a peasant driving a donkey cart came up the road.
As he was driving home from the station in the early morning whom should he see but Biddy, telling her beads, followed by her poultry.
And the bargeman called to the man who was driving the horse and stopped him, and Ulick jumped from the boat to the bank.
But when a boat appeared he called to the man who was driving the horse to stop, for it was the same boat that had brought him from the Shannon.
This lake was famous for its pike, and the landlord allowed Bryden to fish there, and one evening when he was looking for a frog with which to bait his line he met Margaret Dirken driving home the cows for the milking.
Billie triumphantly, just as a driving wall of rain struck her in the face.
A bridge spans this chasm over which flows a constant stream of motor and driving parties from all the villages and summer resorts up and down the coast.
It will be lots more fun than driving behind those poky old carriage horses that bring Percy and Mrs. St. Clair in to church every Sunday.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "driving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
