"Drive off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... take them now; but he does not leave off those which he has been used to play, because he does them better than any one else can do them. If you had generations of actors, if they swarmed like bees, the young ones might drive off the old. Mrs Gibber, I think, got more reputation than she deserved, as she had a great sameness; though her expression was undoubtedly very fine. Mrs Clive was the best player I ever saw. Mrs Pritchard was a very good one; but she had something affected in her manner: ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell
... We have made some preparations to go, and will leave as soon as all is in readiness; but if your warriors commit depredations, or kill any more white men, we will not go at all, but stay here, kill you and drive off your game. ...
— Three Years on the Plains - Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 • Edmund B. Tuttle
... porcelain vessel. A few drops of sulphuric acid are added, and the solution boiled to expel the nitric acid, after which it is evaporated to dryness. In this operation, the sulphuric acid should be added only in sufficient quantity to drive off the nitric acid, or, at the utmost, to form a bisulphate with the excess of potassa. When dry, the salt thus obtained is pulverized in an agate mortar, and mixed with about three times its volume of oxalate of potassa, and a little charcoal powder. The mixture is introduced into a glass ...
— A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe • Anonymous
... Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, together with her celebrated Liver Pills, will purify the blood and drive off the bile, making you happy and pleasant, instead of grouty ...
— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham
... troops when attacked. She took no thought for the English, having already carefully arranged with Flavy how they should be prevented from cutting off her retreat. The governor provided against any chance of this by arming the boulevard strongly with archers to drive off any advancing force, and also by keeping ready on the Oise a number of covered boats to receive the foot-soldiers in case of a ...
— Jeanne d'Arc - Her Life And Death • Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant
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