Citations:drive away

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English citations of drive away

  • 2009, June 10,, Football, The Guardian
    Sébastien Bassong is being driven away by the "madness" at Newcastle United, a source close to the Frenchman has told the local Evening Chronicle newspaper.
  • 2011, Manu Joseph, “Bullshit as a Cultural Space”, in Urban Voice 4: New Indian Writing[1], Leadstart Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
    We would like to believe in the enchanting influence of Gandhigiri as the single absolute force that drove away the whites who probably went muttering, 'bloody Indians', an expression that was enthusiastically attributed to Englishmen by innumerable Hindi films.
  • 2015, Winston Groom, “An Inspiration in a Grubby World”, in The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight[2], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:
    Lindbergh of course volunteered to help and nearly lost the plane. He and two doctors landed at the city of Hinghwa with a bag of vital medicines, which the Chinese thought was food and swam out to one doctor’s sampan, swamped it, and then swam to the plane and began to clamber aboard, tipping the wings dangerously, until Lindbergh took out his revolver and fired into the air, driving them away.