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Sentences starting with driven

Driven through the streets of Dublin in a jaunting-car between two of the king's police, Dyck was a mark for abuse by tongue, but was here and there cheered by partizans of the ultra-loyal group to which his father adhered. [11]
Driven by this new delusion, the king took no rest by day or night, till at last his over-ridden and ill-used horse fell with him, and he was severely wounded in the fall by his own dagger. [10]

Sentences ending with driven

Oh, Bess, I was driven! [13]
The only thing left for the captain of the guards to do was to report what had occurred at the first fortress on the Etham border, which the prisoners were obliged in any case to pass, and toward this they were now driven. [10]
Men might be led through it, but never driven. [9]
I might be led I won't be driven. [13]
Not all are called, and rebellious hearts must be led along the path of salvation with a gentle hand, not dragged and driven. [10]
She forgave them because they were driven. [13]

Short sentences using driven

Don't say driven either. [12]
You dream--or you're driven mad. [13]

Sentences containing driven two or more times

One hundred thousand Frenchmen driven out at the end of the seventeenth century, and one hundred thousand driven out at the end of the eighteenth! [4]

More example sentences with the word driven in them

You--you don't know, you can't know what it is to be driven and used and flung away! [9]
That night another wounded man was driven down the Povarskaya, and Mavra Kuzminichna, who was standing at the gate, had him brought into the Rostovs' yard. [2]
I believe there would be physical resistance to it which could neither be turned aside by argument nor driven away by force. [7]
He had listened with affable condescension to the complaint of a landed proprietor, whose cattle had been driven off for the king's army, and had promised that his case should be enquired into. [10]
For thirteen years, winter and summer, this coachman had driven this monotonous, uninteresting route, with always the same sandy hills, scrubby firs, occasional cabins, in sight. [4]
After the attack--of which she saw little, because, overpowered by fear and horror, she closed her eyes--she had driven home with her lover, where the leech had bandaged his injuries, and Berenike had quickly and carefully transformed her own sleeping chamber into a sick-room. [10]
That blessed clairvoyance which sees into things without opening them, --that glorious license, which, having shut the door and driven the reporter from its key-hole, calls upon Truth, majestic virgin! [6]
Every note marks where a spur of steel has been driven in. [6]
Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
There were moments when I was almost overcome by surges of self-commiseration and of impotent anger: for instance, I was once driven out of a shop by an incensed German grocer whom I had asked to settle a long-standing account. [9]
More than once when Anatole's regiment was stationed at Tver he had taken him from Tver in the evening, brought him to Moscow by daybreak, and driven him back again the next night. [2]
The treasurer rejoices when a beautiful spotless heifer is driven in among our herds. [10]
I told her what I thought about Hilary, and how he'd driven you out of your own mother's house. [9]
I know not what has poisoned thy mind, and driven thee from reason and from justice. [11]
The Hebrews, who were settled in immense numbers in the province of Goshen, and whom Ani had attached to his cause by remitting their task-work, were now driven to labor at the palaces and fortifications which Rameses had begun to build. [10]
To him words were like nails--of no use unless they were to be driven home by acts. [11]
But the horses were harnessed straightway, and he was driven into town, a three-hours' drive. [11]
The minutest particles were driven through a fine wire screen which fitted close around the battery, and were washed into great tubs warmed by super-heated steam--amalgamating pans, they are called. [5]
First her horses were driven almost at a gallop; then they were held down to a slow walk; then they were stopped altogether, and she sat in the shade of the trees on the road to her home, pondering--whispering to herself and pondering. [11]
He arrived alone, wearing the silk hat which had become habitual with him now, and stepping into his barouche at the station had been driven up Brampton Street behind his grays, looking neither to the right nor left. [9]
At last I was lucky enough to light on a sturdy wagon, drawn by a pair of serviceable bays, and driven by James Grayden, with whom I was destined to have a somewhat continued acquaintance. [6]
At last I was driven out in spite of myself, and I arrived at Asquith cross and dusty. [9]
When young Enderby was driven from his father's house by Cromwell, he determined to join the Scotch army which was expected soon to welcome Charles the Second from France. [11]
When the flat was brought up, the side of the house was cut away as the only means of getting the animals out, and the cattle were driven on board the boat. [5]
I have always wanted to be good, but something has always driven me where the flowers have a poisonous sweetness, where the heart grows bad. [11]
He expressed this view to his master, and insisted upon his opinion until Hermon confided to him what had driven Archias from Alexandria. [10]
Such is the vehemence of these attacks, that the unfortunate subjects of them are often driven backwards for great distances at immense speed, on the well-known principle of the aeolipile. [6]
He shook it until she had driven away beyond the hill and was lost to sight, and still stood there at the window looking out. [11]
He made her unhappy, and now he's driven her son out of her house, and made him unhappy. [9]
The Senorita, the unhappy ma'm'selle, driven from her ancestral home by persecution, she will sing it to you as she has sung it to me. [11]
A day or two after Margaret's arrival she had driven around to call in her dog-cart, looking as fresh as a daisy in her sunhat. [4]
Baffled at every turn and driven defeated from a hundred fields, he carries victory in himself. [4]
Old Damia's instructions troubled her; they took much of the charm from her dream of being loved by Marcus, clasped in his arms, and driven through the city in his chariot. [10]
It is a trephine, a surgical implement for cutting round pieces out of broken skulls, so as to get at the fragments which have been driven in, and lift them up. [3]
And if so treated and driven out, at what point of time would there ever be ten thousand? [7]
They had come to-day from many mysterious (and therefore delightful) places which Honora knew only by name, and some had driven the twenty-five odd miles from the bunting community of Banbury in coaches and even those new and marvellous importations--French automobiles. [9]
The only solution to this puzzle was that the cattle had been driven through water, and water deep enough to wet their legs. [13]
He sobbed, now, to think he should never, never hear that old familiar sound any more--it was very hard, but it was forced on him; since he was driven out into the cold world, he must submit--but he forgave them. [5]
The judge turned to the woman again, and said, in a compassionate voice-- "'Tis a poor ignorant lad, and mayhap was driven hard by hunger, for these be grievous times for the unfortunate; mark you, he hath not an evil face--but when hunger driveth--Good woman! [5]
Then both clinging to the upturned canoe as it is driven nearer and nearer shore.... [11]
We were driven to the boat by the intense heat, and there we remained, spell-bound. [5]
He had driven to Rudolstadt with the "old bay," but he willingly accepted a seat in our carriage. [10]
Mr. Vance was to have driven out for dinner. [9]
This time the Thursday boat had not arrived at ten at night--so the people had waited at the landing all day for nothing; they were driven to their homes by a heavy storm without having had a view of the illustrious foreigners. [5]
I would go through the manuscript but I am too much driven just now, and it is not important anyway. [5]
It was at this time that I volunteered to drive, although I had never driven a harnessed horse before and many a man in such a position would have felt fairly excused from such a responsibility. [5]
But he was thinking instead of how the angel and the devil may live side by side in a man, and neither be entirely driven out--and the angel conquer in great times and seasons. [11]
Venters doubted that they were the rustlers who had driven the red herd. [13]
On election day they were driven, like visiting notables, in carryalls and carriages to the polls! [9]
This last night they were all driven out, and the young woman carried off the head. [5]
Farther and farther they went afield for game, and always they grumbled sorely against this horde which had driven the deer from his cover and the buffalo from his wallow. [9]
Away down yonder, they have driven two rows of piles straight through the middle of a dry bar half a mile long, which is forty foot out of the water when the river is low. [5]
And we respected then the heretofore seemingly insane impulse that had driven us on to Baddeck. [4]
After it passed, the visitors tried to reach Eagle Cliff, two miles off, whence an extensive western prospect is had, but were driven back by a tempest, and rain practically occupied the day. [4]
He called himself the victim of a cruel, inexorable fate, and felt like a bunted animal driven to its last gasp and hearing the dogs and sportsmen fast coming nearer. [10]
Yesterday they gave the 'Thals' of Menander, and I assure you that in Alexandria the woman who dared to impersonate the bewitching and cold-hearted Hetaira would have been driven off the stage--they would have pelted her with rotten apples. [10]
She thought of the sister, younger than herself, whom Rube Haman had married and driven to her grave within a year--the sweet Lucy, with the name of her father's mother. [11]
The spot for the shanty is cleared of underbrush; forked stakes are driven into the ground, cross-pieces are laid on them, and poles sloping back to the ground. [4]
When Eva greeted the reunited pair they had already poured forth to each other the events which had driven them to the verge of despair, and which now once more permitted them with budding hope to anticipate new happiness. [10]
The horses in the quadriga with which Marcus, the son of Mary, made his appearance in the arena had never before been driven in the Hippodrome. [10]
After all, you're the only Pindar left except George, and I'm satisfied that as a doctor you're up to the job, since you've driven Dr. Senn out of business. [9]
The horses in the next chariot bolted as they were being driven past this mass of plunging and neighing confusion; they defied their driver's impotent efforts and galloped across the course back into the caiceres. [10]
I have driven the needle under my nail! [5]
I happened, on the Isle of Wight, to hear a bland landlord "blow up" his glib-tongued son because the latter had not driven a stiffer bargain with us for the hire of a carriage round the island. [4]
It was not the hut of a fisherman, though upon the wall opposite the books there hung fishing-tackle, nets, and cords, while outside, on staples driven in the jutting chimney, were some lobster-pots. [11]
In another moment the guide disappeared behind the deluge, and bewildered by the thunder, driven helplessly by the wind, and smitten by the arrowy tempest of rain, I followed. [5]
Yes, but suppose the French were driven out, and the baker taken prisoner and should reveal his father's complicity! [11]
Wherever he went the enemy shrank before him; the Swedes fled to right and left, or were driven, like dogs, into their own ditch; but as he pushed forward, singly with headlong courage, the foe closed behind and hung upon his rear. [4]
From this position the enemy could be driven from their main position on the summit, because they could be swept now by artillery fire from a point as high as their own. [11]
One after another the days glided by, while with the sharpened senses of a great love she watched for a sign of the thing that slept in him--of the thing that had driven him home from his wanderings to re-create his life. [9]
The Seigneur's words the day before had driven her back upon a tide of emotions which carried her far out upon that sea where reason and life's conventions are derelicts, where Love sails with reckless courage down the shoreless main. [11]
When I escaped the cruelties of Pirats and most furious stormes, a long time alone in a small Boat at Sea, and driven ashore in France, the good Lady Chanoyes bountifully assisted me. [4]
Before he entered the court-yard he ordered the crowd to disperse; the refractory were driven away by force, and in a few minutes the valley was cleared of the howling and shouting mob, and the burning house was surrounded by soldiers. [10]
Others have sought the companionship of Nature; I have been driven to it. [6]
Thereafter, amid all the clouds of falsehood and ridicule which we had to encounter, there was one lighthouse fixed on a rock to which we could go for foothold, from which we could not be driven, and against which all assaults were impotent. [6]
The carpenter and the carver in wood who were responsible for the work had fallen victims to white whiskey on the very last day of their task, and had been driven from the church by the Cure, who then sent for Jo. [11]
We profess constantly that we have no more inclination than belief in the power of the government to disturb it; yet we are driven constantly to defend ourselves from the assumption that we are warring upon the rights of the Sates. [7]
Major Rowens, at that time Lieutenant of the Rockland Fusileers, had driven and "traded" horses not a few before he turned his acquired skill as a judge of physical advantages in another direction. [6]
The man announced that the Tsar had been driven in a carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and that he was dangerously wounded. [2]
The truth is that the persons of that buoyant disposition which comes always heralded by a smile, as a yacht driven by a favoring breeze carries a wreath of sparkling foam before her, are born with their happiness ready made. [6]
There were rumours that the banker had left the church until the recalcitrant rector should be driven out of it; the usual long list of Mr. Parr's benefactions was included, and certain veiled paragraphs concerning his financial operations. [9]
Mr. Buckstone resolved that now that the nail was driven home, he would clinch it on the other side and make it stay forever. [5]
They well know that I am hard driven when I resort to the lash. [9]
The artist thought that fever had driven the wounded warrior from his couch, as it formerly did his fellow-pupil Lycon, whom, in the delirium of typhus, he could keep in bed only by force. [10]
Notwithstanding the fact that a great many had driven a part of their stock to the hills some time ago, there yet remains a large quantity, which General York, who is working with indomitable energy, will get landed in the pine hills by Tuesday. [5]
He also reported that a few knights had been feeling their way toward us, and had driven some cattle across our lines, but that the knights themselves had not come very near. [5]
These at once surrounded them and took them prisoners, as the hunter traps the game that rushes down upon him when driven by the dogs and beaters. [10]
And could you suppose he failed to appreciate the efficiency of characteristic "last words," in the matter of seizing the successfully driven nail of such a reputation and clinching on the other side for ever? [5]
On their second Sunday excursion he had actually driven her, despite her opposition, several miles on the Boston road; and her resistance only served to inflame him the more. [9]
Pierre no longer suffered moments of despair, hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and never left him for a moment. [2]
Here was another such day, here again was the storm in her heart which had driven her into the plains that other time, and here again was that tempest of white death outside. [11]
The insult had stung her, had driven her back into a reserve, out of which she seemed unable to emerge. [11]
Were these the streets through which she had driven and trod in her former life? [9]
He had driven straight from Euston to Cavendish Square, but, seeing the house lighted up, and guests arriving, he had a sudden feeling of uncertainty. [11]
During the heavy storm of last night a torrent from the mountain-height had shed itself into her retreat and had driven her out of it. [10]
No word was spoken till they entered the carriage and were driven swiftly away. [11]
Like another foul spirit being driven out, it may seek to tear her, but it will woo her no more. [7]
He is a sort of expletive at the table, serving to stop gaps, taking the same place a washer does that makes a loose screw fit, and contriving to get driven in like a wedge between any two chairs where there is a crevice. [6]
The fine powdery snow was driven past us in the clouds, penetrating the interstices of our clothes, and the pieces of ice which flew from the blows of Peter's ax were whisked into the air, and then dashed over the precipice. [5]
They arrived with slow and impressive solemnity; they returned like a cloud driven before the storm, galloping homewards from the burial-ground along the quay, and then thundering and clattering over the bridge of boats. [10]

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