Which preposition to use with driver
Breadth, no less than length, is a striking feature of Western settlements, and that this element is conspicuous in the journalism of those singular abodes, no less than in the social life of their inhabitants, generally, is evidenced in the following advertisement cut from "The Times"a paper published at Leavenworth, Kansas: "NOTICE TO DRIVERS OF FAST STOCK.Hold your horses and do not drive so fast.
General Sheridan informed the Duke that I also had been a stage-driver in the Rocky Mountains, and thereupon His Royal Highness expressed a desire to see me drive.
Scott was known to be the best reinsman and the most expert driver on the whole line of the road.
They'd put a note under his door telling him to be in time by the school clock; and besides that, when one of the men went to get him out, he found a screw-driver with Oaks's name on, so it's as clear as day who did it.
I sent my driver for another car while I hurried here, for I was afraid that you might do something rash.
"And you are the drosky-driver from Abo," remarked the fellow, turning to Felix.
When a lame old gentleman hails you, beckon him furiously to come on, but be sure, at the same time, to urge the driver to greater speed.
Then, on the night of the murder, the taxi-cab driver at Hyde Park Corner drove him to his house at Princes Gate, but was ordered to drive back and take him to Verney's Hotel.
When Douglass, accompanied by his wife, arrived in New Bedford, a Mr. Nathan Johnson, a colored man to whom he had been recommended, received him kindly, gave him shelter and sympathy, and lent him a small sum of money to redeem his meagre baggage, which had been held by the stage-driver as security for an unpaid balance of the fare to New Bedford.
They all descended; but Tina, being stout, and heavy on her feet, was soon tired, and got in again; whilst Mazzuolo, with a view to his design against Adelaide, fell into conversation with the driver about the different stations they would have to stop at.
Their inference is broad enough to protect the most brutal driver amidst his deadliest inflictions!
As there was some doubt about the propriety of my taking a Belgian military driver into the German lines I drove the car myself.
When I reached the street-car track at the foot of the hill, the one car which plies back and forth through the city was in its place, with the driver beside it, but no mules.
"I was riding once, on the top of a stage-coach," said a Christian gentleman, "when the driver by my side began to swear in a dreadful manner.
The Portuguese pride themselves on their gentle bearing toward their slaves, yet the streets of Rio Janeiro are filled with naked men and women yoked in pairs to carts and wagons, and whipped by drivers like beasts of burden.
Then he saw the head of the driver through the glass panes in the door; his hand rested on the grip of some apparatus connected with the steering, he believed.
I am inclined for smaller teams and the driver behind the sledge.
Nash was not a good nor a careful driver under any circumstances, and this morning it was evident he did not have his mind on his business.
He almost pulled the driver out of his seat.
Shorter hours, bigger pay, no slave-drivers over us, and, best of all, we are treated like human beings.
One afternoon Whipple and Blair, the latter once more free from probation, played a match with Joel and West, and were fairly beaten by three holesa fact due less, it is true, to Joel's execution with the driver than West's all-around playing.
I witnessed an example of the cool daring of these mitrailleuse drivers during the fighting around Malines.
To-day, for example, it is impossible on a certain Pennsylvania road for one more progressive farmer to get his neighbors to coöperate in so simple a matter as hauling their milk cans to the creamery, and so every day in the year ten horses are hitched to ten delivery wagons carrying two or three milk cans apiece, and driven by ten drivers along the same road to and from the railroad station.
Unable to summarily reassume his usual functions beside the driver without some practical reason, and ashamed to go so palpably as a mere passenger, he was forced to let the coach proceed without him.