154 Verbs to Use for the Word driving

They took us a drive after dinner to see several of the Emperor's pavilions, mostly surrounded by beautiful pieces of water.

but the afternoon was so lovely that I soon forgot the danger and enjoyed the drive.

Paul and Steinmetz had suddenly given up their long drives to distant parts of the estate.

" As they went on round the house, Miss Morriston was seen coming up the drive.

The same may be said of the threatened disaster to the British army early in 1918, when von Hindenburg began his great drive toward Calais and Paris.

" Stafford rode down the winding drive at which the gardeners were at work on borders and shrubberies, and on to the road.

I have never seen any one drive like her.

In about half an hour the voices stopped, and a minute later a man came out of the house and walked down the path through the garden, and entered the carriage drive close to where witness was concealed in the plantation.

GREAT BATTLE BEFORE VERDUN One of the greatest and most sanguinary battles of the war began before Verdun on February 20, when the army of the Crown Prince of Germany, in the presence of the Kaiser, started a determined and desperate drive against the great French fortress.

For the first time in the war the British were making sharp drives and smashes like a skillful pugilist, every one of which contained force enough to have been considered a major attack in the history of other wars.

We soon lifted the wagon out of the ditch, and then resumed our drive, running into camp under full headway, and creating considerable amusement.

It is the best and truest form of war history, and important in that it gives details of action during those July days when American troops stopped the German drive.

He had left the horse's head, writes M.Y., to attend to placing the baggage, when, hearing another carriage drive rapidly up, our horse set off, and my J.Y., in attempting to stop him by catching hold of the reins, fell, and was much bruised, but through mercy no limb was broken.

"A week ago last Thursday the local posts of the American Legion commenced their organized drive for jobs for their crippled and unemployed comrades, and within three days you've sawed off two hundred and nine such jobs on the various corporations that you control.

The only convenient train in the morning thither leaves early, and although we preferred driving, we made an early start too, in order to spend a long day.

Rosa, the gaoler's daughter, unknown to her father, had opened the postern, and had herself bidden De Witt's coachman drive round to the rear of the prison, and by this means the fury of the mob was, for the moment, evaded.

A succession of guests was constantly coming and going, and I still remember the daily drives over those grand old hills crowned with trees now gorgeous in rich colors, the more charming because we knew the time was short before the cold winds of November would change all.

The rain was falling dismally as the coach in which I had made the journey rolled up the drive to Riverview, and I caught but a glimpse of the house as I was rushed up the steps and into the wide hall.

A melancholy brougham passed up the drive.

Would you like another drive, or do you feel too tired?" "Not in the least.

He watched her drive in and walk toward the front entrance.

They were much astonished and somewhat ashamed, when I told them of my long, solitary drives over the prairies from day to day.

In the morning, I thought my friends were merely going a short drive, so I kept my seat.

It is such an entrance as you might expect to find at any comfortable country place at home, and one day, when some student volunteers went by on a practise march, and cheered as they passed, I saw the King, with the Queen and one or two others, stroll down the drive and bow just as if he, too, were some comfortable country gentleman.

But the pigs did not need much driving, for they were very good, and did not want to cause Don, or the farmer, any trouble if they could help it.

154 Verbs to Use for the Word  driving