17 Metaphors for driven

A drive on a coach is always to me a most doubtful joy; the ascent, labor; the drive itself, long anxiety and peril; the descent, agony, and sometimes shame.

And not only the King, but all Munich was at the feet of the lovely "Spaniard"; her drives through the streets were Royal progresses; her receptions in the palace which Ludwig presented to her were thronged by all the greatest in Bavaria; on Prince and peasant alike she cast the spell of her witchery.

Andy Griffing, the driver, was a grizzled little man with twinkling eyes and a cheery air that seemed to indicate that an afternoon drive was as much a novelty and pleasure to him as it could possibly be to any two ladies; which was odd, considering that for the last forty years Andy had been almost constantly engaged in taking morning, afternoon, evening, and night drives.

[Footnote 10: To-drive is an old expression meaning break apart.

The fashionable drive and promenade in Paris was Longchamps, now the Champs Élysées, and it was Madame Récamier's delight to drive in an open carriage on this beautiful avenue, especially on what are called the holy days,Wednesdays and Fridays,when her beauty extorted salutations from the crowd.

The drive to Monreale is a continued ascent along the skirts of a limestone rock, whose precipices are thickly planted at every foothold with olive, Indian fig, and aloe.

The drive, in one straight line, is probably a league in length.

"Drive to the best hotel," was her command.

The drive each way was a treat in itself, and the moon rising over the sea on our way home was a sight never to be forgotten.

This year's drive has been a success.

The long drive, lined with hostile monkey trees and formal wellingtonias that were solemn and sedate, was mere extension of the miniature approach to a thousand semidetached suburban "residences"; and the appearance of The Towers, as we turned the corner with a rush, suggested a commonplace climax to a story that had begun interestingly, almost thrillingly.

West's second drive was a loft over Halfway Bunker that fell fairly on the green and rolled within ten feet of the hole.

Before breaking-in, the Forest pony is a wild and often vicious little beastmore so, perhaps, than its cousins of Wales and Dartmoorand a "drive," when the little horses are corralled, is an exciting and interesting affair, human wits being pitted against equine, not always to the advantage of the former.

A drive from either city is "the thing" for the visitor to do.

[Though as some have suggested, a carriage drive connecting Nantucket with the Continent would be a great modern improvement].

Drives is a verb.

The drive had become an annual event.

17 Metaphors for  driven