"Drive back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stopping beneath her window. Looking down, she saw one of her own vehicles, a light phaeton drawn by a pair of young blooded colts she had sent in to Frankfort some days earlier, that they might be rested and fresh for the day's drive back to Storm, which was to be their wedding journey. She looked ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... do you say to stopping at Lecceto on the way? I haven't shown you Lecceto yet; and the drive back ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton
... scaffold with twenty of my best men, who, at a signal from me, will rush forward directly Peppino is brought for execution, and, by the assistance of their stilettos, drive back the guard, and carry ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... On the drive back to the little Station, you were the Man, the Poet, but not the Mystic! You delighted the Wizard with your genial flow of Verse, of Story. When the watchful Wizard, smuggled you aboard your train—with ...
— A Spray of Kentucky Pine • George Douglass Sherley
... burst his cheeks, or a blood-vessel, on the spot, and far up the field three wandering pheasants racing back to the covert, as they thought, for very life; but, as a matter of fact—and you shall see—it was to very death. The blower of whistles was stationed there to drive back into the covert any pheasants who were so misguided as to wish to roam thence ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars
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