Drives

Examples

• For if I had that chance, in one of the humours he drives me into--he'd go down, sir! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am afraid you have had a tedious ride; John drives so slowly; you must be cold, come to the fire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I remembered the place perfectly--we had often passed by it in our drives. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Oh, it drives me half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It might undoubtedly enable me to put four horses to my carriage; but what would it avail me to have it said that Sir Humphrey drives his carriage and four? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Persuade her to rise, dear Madam; drag her from her couch and her low spirits; insist upon her taking little drives. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This muscular pump drives it into the aorta. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Sugden took the reins--he drives like Jehu--and in another quarter of an hour Barraclough will be safe in Stilbro' jail. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• While they are so conversing, a hackney-coach drives into the square, on the box of which vehicle a very tall hat makes itself manifest to the public. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There's something in her eyes wakes such a dreadful fear in my heart, that it drives me mad. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The 66-foot ladder of this truck is raised by the motor which drives the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One shoulder of mutton, you know, drives another down. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• As he approaches the Lammles' door, drives up a little one-horse carriage, containing Tippins the divine. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This mixture is ignited by an automatic, electric sparking device, and the explosion of the gases drives the piston _P_ to the right. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The bolster is an upright sleeve bearing, in which the spindle revolves, and against which is sustained the pull of the band that drives the spindle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• My master drives himself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Margaret had now and then been into the city in her drives with her aunt. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She lives quietly, sings at concerts, drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for dinner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Very nice four-wheel chaise, sir-- seat for two behind--one in front for the gentleman that drives--oh! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Only, there Bulstrode holds the reins and drives him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As _M_ falls it drives the air in _D_ out through _O_ and _P_ (the opening _P_ is not visible in the diagram). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If the taboo is effective it drives the evil under cover, where it festers and emits a slow poison. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They resemble steam engines, in that the water under pressure drives a piston in a cylinder somewhat in the manner of steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Each engine drives a 2,500-kilowatt dynamo. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Heated boilers change water into the steam which drives our engines on land and sea. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As well get excited because a central hub drives a hundred outer wheels or because the whole universe wheels round the sun. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• An upward motion of the plunger allows water to enter the cylinder, and the downward motion of the plunger drives water through _E_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Him as drives a Ipswich coach, and uses our parlour,' rejoined the boy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Heat keeps us warm, cooks our food, drives our engines, and in a thousand ways makes life comfortable and pleasant, but what should we do without light? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Why had they not made those same drives simultaneously? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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