Wedrove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
One morning I had beendriven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
[…] Demosthenes desired them first to put in at Pylos and not to proceed on their voyage until they had done what he wanted. They objected, but it so happened that a storm came on anddrove them into Pylos.
The negotiations weredriven to completion minutes before the final deadline.
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, inRAIL, number948, page 3:
And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR,drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
[…] Unequal match’d, Pyrrhus at Priamdrives, in rage strikes wide;
1697,Virgil, “The First Book of theÆneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC, lines146-148:
Thus while the Pious Prince his Fate bewails, FierceBoreasdrove against his flying Sails. And rent the Sheets[…]
Charles, ill in body and mind, and glad to escape from his enemies under cover of the night and adriving tempest, was at length compelled to sign the treaty of Passau[…]
It would seem they were regarding this new antagonist with astonishment. To their intelligence, it may be, the giant was even such another as themselves. TheThunder Child fired no gun, but simplydrove full speed towards them. It was probably her not firing that enabled her to get so near the enemy as she did. They did not know what to make of her. One shell, and they would have sent her to the bottom forthwith with the Heat-Ray.
[…] as a duck for life that dives, So up and down the poor shipdrives:
1743,Robert Drury,The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar[5], London, page12:
[…] the Captain[…] order’d the Cable to be cut, and let the Shipdrive nearer the Land, where she soon beat to pieces:
1697,Virgil, “The First Book of theÆneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC, lines744-745:
We come not with design of wastful Prey, Todrive the Country, force the Swains away:
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Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey haddrive and Caesar as much again.
1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, inRailway Magazine, page800:
As we contemplate the half-finished arterial roads and electrification plans of our own age, and the town-planning schemes that gather dust in the public libraries, we can admire thedrive and action of the railway pioneers.
1986, Fred Matheny,Solo Cycling: How to Train and Race Bicycle Time Trials, page136:
I confess that the sight of my minute man ahead, getting closer and closer, gives me a little moredrive even when I think I am going as fast as I can.
2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 11:37 from the start, inAnti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron[7], archived fromthe original on29 November 2024:
Although British involvement in the slave trade prior to 1807cannot be denied,or its effects diminished, it isalso a fact that the Royal Navy was pretty much theonly force in the world in the 19th century with the numbers,drive, willingness, firepower, and capability to curtail the global slave trade, and that,without these efforts, many more would no doubt have been taken to slave plantations and other such destinations during the 19th, and possibly even into the 20th, centuries, as it must be remembered that a great many European powers would only begrudgingly commit to ending the slave trade when theother option was continuous war with the British Empire.
1941 August, Charles E. Lee, “Railways of Italian East Africa—I”, inRailway Magazine, page340:
On the other hand, in Eritrea (once our Forces had recaptured Kassala on January 19) thedrive was generally eastward towards the capital, Asmara, and the Red Sea port of Massaua.
A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, inRailway Magazine, page275:
A universal joint shaft takes thedrive to the final drive unit mounted centrally on one of the axles.
2001, Michael Hereward Westbrook,The Electric Car, IET,→ISBN, page146:
Heat engine-electric hybrid vehicles : The hybrid vehicle on which most development work has been done to date is the one that couples a heat engine with an electricdrive system. The objective remains the same as it was in 1900:
We merely waited to rouse good Mrs. Vesey from the place which she still occupied at the deserted luncheon-table, before we entered the open carriage for our promiseddrive.
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the longdrive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
1957 December, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page871:
Halfway from Hellingly Station, the railway enters the well-kept hospital grounds, and runs parallel with a tree-lineddrive about half a mile long.
(cricket) A type ofshot played by swinging thebat in averticalarc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally betweencover andmidwicket.
And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a lowdrive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal.
(American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ orfirst downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
2017 March 21, Leonora Brito,Dat's Love and Other Stories, Parthian Books,→ISBN:
Yeah, thanks,drive! You boyz all goin' shoppin'? We are,drive, says Chip.
2017 July 1, Huw Lewis,To Hear the Skylark's Song, Parthian Books,→ISBN:
The coaches dropped us where we had begun, outside the chapel; each child in turn piping up, 'Thank you,drive!' as we disembarked.
2018 June 28, Wilf Merttens,Bristol Urban Legends: The Hotwells Crocodile and Other Stories, The History Press,→ISBN:
Soon every stop on every route was once again punctuated by rounds of 'Cheersdrive! Cheersdrive! Cheersdrive!' And with this little nicety reinstated, all was relatively well in Bristol town.
2019 May 30, Ed Clarke,The Secret Dragon, Penguin UK,→ISBN:
'Cheers,Drive!' said Dylan as they climbed off the bus.
In connection with a mass-storage device, originally the worddrive referred solely to the reading and writing mechanism. For the storage device itself, the worddisk ordisc (depending on the type of device) was used instead. This remains a valid distinction for components such as floppy drives or CD drives, in which the drive and the disk are separate and independent items. For other devices, such as hard disks and flash drives, the reading, writing and storage components are combined into an integrated whole, and cannot be separated without destroying the device. In these cases, the wordsdisk anddrive are used interchangeably.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page132
