Use the word driven in a sentence

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Synonyms for driven

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Sentence Examples

1, Devil must be Driven out with devils.	93	12
2, The tape was Driven by a clockwork motor.	15	9
3, The Driven part should be geared up.	76	7
4, The submarine is Driven by nuclear power.	58	5
5, A wooden stake was Driven firmly into the ground.	106	7
6, They were Driven back by a police baton charge.	183	20
7, The machinery is Driven by electricity.	85	0
8, They are Driven by a craving for personal glory.	67	6
9, This heavy freighter is Driven by two electric motors.	57	19
10, The motor was Driven by a toothed belt.	193	18
11, Extreme stress had Driven him to the brink of a nervous breakdown.	183	11
12, The pump is actuated by a belt Driven by an electric motor.	107	16
13, The two fighters were Driven off by a barrage of anti-aircraft fire.	187	19
14, He has not Driven since his near fatal crash earlier this year.	192	14
15, Eventually, Driven to despair, he threw himself under a train.	32	16

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Keeping moving, I’d started on the bathroom, dealing with the bath, hand basin and loo in turn and ending up scrubbing the bathroom floor with an energy driven by desperation not to fall apart

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«I’m glad you’re not a jealous sister, and be glad you aren’t stuck in a body as driven by its glands as this one

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The company was a global financial-industrial monster driven by the

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I’d naturally assumed that she’d driven here

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like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind

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ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost;

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They maintained the atmosphere was chaotically driven by the continental contours and their details were unknown

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The results were always the same, defeat, destruction or driven from the presence of

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After he had driven his black beauty of a car out onto the lane and closed the back gate, she took a tin of something fishy out of the under sink cupboard , sat down in one of her rickety old kitchen chairs, the one next to the gently warming range, and poured herself a thick measure of her favourite Scotch

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Other towns seem to be completely driven mad with sexual passions

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In the Yakhan some were driven by motors and a ride on one was about an iron per person

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He scrambled up as far as he could, his fear of heights driven from his mind by his fear of what burst into the camp below them

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in the passage of the bone coach driven on in the round

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It was that fact alone that had driven him to seek power, first religious/political power, and when that had not been enough to have them come to him willingly, the biological power of his laboratories

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The culture of a city is driven by its residents so visiting a new area is often a chance for you and your partner to enjoy a new adventure together

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It was decorated as a corporate officer’s office back in his days on mortal Earth, high on a tower overlooking a smokey city-scape with huge screens that could be levitated around the room, all driven from his phone display

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He actually thought Ava was sexier than that cherub someone had driven into his quarters last weekend

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Driven by revenge and spite

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It’s what’s driven me crazy over the last few years

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Ken worked like a Trojan all day long, driven on by the ingratitude of all those he loved, each one of whom left him when it suited them, all that is except the second Mrs

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While her husband and daughter found comfort in its reassuring presence, Helen was driven to distraction by even the faintest note

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«So it was a driven cherub?» Glayet asked

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I have been driven for many years to share this

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driven to another laboratory a number of miles away,

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«She said she was from Atlantis, but I think she was driven by Alan

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«The way that personification acted, it had to be driven by a male

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«Any that are any good are probably driven

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“You really think I’m that driven?” He asked sarcastically

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policewoman who had driven the children home made a note to

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They also asked for a chauffeur driven

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We had a lovely evening … he’d driven us out to a pub on the outskirts of town

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Goodness knows how long we’d have stood there in the car park of the pub if someone hadn’t walked past and giggled … it was probably nothing to do with us, but all the same, we’d very quickly got into his car and he’d driven me home

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reassuring presence, Helen was driven to distraction by even the

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“You went all the way across henarDee while I slept?” She had driven at least a third of the journey, he’d been bored with it before they got that far

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“You seem to have been a very driven student,” he said

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It was clear that they were both building the same vision of Tdeshi in their minds, the driven young woman who had to get it done now

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It hurt him to think that she would be so driven, but actually she would

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If they found teachers Tdeshi had in the past, what would they learn? They would probably learn more about how driven she was and more about how she was withdrawn from society

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The young men were collected by a lorry driven by a rather

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Yes Tdeshi was driven, but she was also happy and popular

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Clouds darkened the sky driven by cold southerly

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Far to the south, she could just see the last threads of the clouds disappearing towards the horizon, driven by the fresh breeze

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Tdeshi was a very driven individual

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Step by reluctant step, she was driven, herded almost, forced back along the corridor to the bedroom where, pushing the door open with blind hands, she had almost fallen backwards into the room

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Kev stared out of the window at the little town he had driven through in the dark — just an ordinary, little town with a few shops and a bit of a tourist industry

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But her gait was driven erratically by constantly glancing stiffly over one shoulder, then over the other at the aliens behind her

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” What if Jorma had something to do with this? What if Jorma was driven mad with jealousy when Tdeshi left him for the city

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From what she’s let drop, it seems her ex-husband deceived her, lied to her and, having driven her to attempting suicide, lied to her psychiatrist as well, trying to convince both of them that she was crazy

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him, he would be driven to commit the sin of theft

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«She was driven off, by old Johnny, himself

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She’d driven up the mountain road now for what seemed to be an eternity, Fearful of looking away, fully aware that she might miss the left hand turn in the dark

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For himself, Harry enrolled for the Summer Term at Malvern and set his mind to completing his education with that hallowed institution within the shortest time practicable, driven by an imperative which he could not satisfactorily define

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Julia tried to be confident, for though she was not sure whether the five of them could stop Justice, she knew she had to fight for liberty, for the creature that called itself Justice was truly nothing more than a monster driven by vengeance and hatred, and she knew that under him there would be no more freedom for any living creature in the universe, and she could simply not abide by that

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Let’s face it – Sandini would have driven a Saint to

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His anger had driven him, however, and

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The very thought that mama was driven to theft

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She knew she’d driven him to that, by allowing Jim to flirt the way she had

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It’s the year she was driven off the ranch

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«What do you mean driven off the ranch?»

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to somewhere unlikely, driven by the winds of chance and the pursuit of one Agent

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There was a stand beside it with two cups and a bottle, a lantern, which was not yet lit, and a big ceiling-fan sized propeller driven by a little six-legged animal in a round cage that caused it to fly

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to reveal to us who we are and our calling in God, the religious driven by the

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It is a machine driven by the fear of man

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Eventually the car was driven

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She was looking for a source of variety who was a little more light-hearted and less driven than Alan

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had been driven by an instinct to protect their parking

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Many would not he able to find employment even upon these hard terms, but would either starve, or be driven to seek a subsistence, either by begging, or by the perpetration perhaps, of the greatest enormities

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The cab had driven up, and I left him

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Now, for the first time ever they’ve been driven back into the Black Door

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All thoughts of his family had been driven from his

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Katrina could speculate on the atrocities LeCynic had inflicted on the elven sisters, atrocities which had driven them to suicide, though she tried not to bring such dark thoughts into her mind

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Nobody bid so I thought as I had driven all this way, and not return with anything, I put my hand up, but alas another person also bid, so again I raised my hand and the hammer came down, it was mine! I went to the office to pay and received my invoice and returned to the counter to pick up my purchase

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to renew his friendship with Pierre had driven him on

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they would battle the dead through the city of Lock Core; street by street, block by block, until they were driven to the Outlands

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It wasn’t that relentless Helios had driven feeling from my mind

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Its coffers having been filled so very ill, it is said to have been driven to this resource within a very few months after it began to do business

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Then there are those who are driven by short-term results

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My throat felt tight and I worried that I may have driven her to trust the wrong guy

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The way that we driven

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Which made sense — instead of causing the ram to attack, that would have only driven him to the pen’s far side

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In 1310, nine hundred families were driven out of Lucca, of whom thirty-one retired to Venice, and offered to introduce there the silk manufacture

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The man added that he could tell the red-headed Nord would make an excellent recruit and that with more warriors like him, the damned Imperials would be driven back across the Jerall Mountains soon enough

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He could appreciate how many of his fellow Nords who deeply revered Talos in all of his otherworldly glory would be driven to their cause – especially if they had suffered their own conflict-tied tragedies

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types: the fanatics, the confident and the driven

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The rain had long since driven DRAFTChapter 10 175

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For all of her enthusiasm in these moments he thought she might have gone mad, driven insane by the earthen and rock walls

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For a long time, there had been whisperings of a demented Legionnaire who had been driven mad at the hands of the Thalmor DRAFT

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Home is in this manner the centre, if I may say so, round which the capitals of the inhabitants of every country are continually circulating, and towards which they are always tending, though, by particular causes, they may sometimes be driven off and repelled from it towards more distant employments

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Before he had a chance to react he felt the needle driven into his arm

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He again derided Brynjolf for his eagerness to recruit the young woman — a move no doubt driven by her charisma, a supply of which matched that of the red-headed Nord

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Motivation can be driven by belief, expected rewards, fear of punishment, personal need, or anything else

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«I fear the animal must have been driven to distraction by your meandering monologues

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They are unpredictable, driven by a passion for retribution at any cost

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One driven by mutual aspirations and love of success, of finely tuned approaches to enterprise

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It is in this manner that the capital of Great Britain, one may justly say, has partly been drawn and partly been driven from the greater part of the different branches of trade of which she has not the monopoly ; from the trade of Europe, in particular, and from that of the countries which lie round the Mediterranean sea

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It has partly been driven from them, by the advantage which the high rate of profit established in Great Britain gives to other countries, in all the different branches of trade of which Great Britain has not the monopoly

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Not one single car has driven by

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My Daddy was as white as the driven snow, a Colonel in the former U

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He was a strange man, no question, but Kurt knew he was driven, goal oriented and that this set back would not deter him from his life objectives

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1, Devil must be driven out with devils. 

2, The tape was driven by a clockwork motor.

3, The driven part should be geared up.

4, The submarine is driven by nuclear power.

5, A wooden stake was driven firmly into the ground.

6, They were driven back by a police baton charge.

7, The machinery is driven by electricity.

8, They are driven by a craving for personal glory.

9, This heavy freighter is driven by two electric motors.

10, The motor was driven by a toothed belt.

11, Extreme stress had driven him to the brink of a nervous breakdown.

12, The pump is actuated by a belt driven by an electric motor.

13, The two fighters were driven off by a barrage of anti-aircraft fire.

14, He has not driven since his near fatal crash earlier this year.

15, Eventually, driven to despair, he threw himself under a train.

16, The novel tells the story of a teenager driven to despair by the hypocrisy of the adult world.

17, Have you driven far?

18, I’ve never driven a car before — I’m a complete novice.

19, We’ve driven a/one hundred miles in the last two hours.

20, He was nearly driven mad by his troubles.

21, She is driven by overweening ambition.

22, They were driven to the hut for shelter.

23, The engine is driven by steam.

24, The car was driven off at speed.

25, They were herded together into trucks and driven away.

26, The sheep were driven to the local abattoir.

27, The children have driven me demented today.

28, They were driven away in a police van.

29, He was driven by necessity to steal.

30, They had driven him to drink .

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Examples of driven in a sentence

1. In the autumn, the English king was driven for the third time “house without boot and punished by the weather”.
2. And for once in my life weak, vulnerable, driven by the market, I abstain.
3. In the four schools, the specific library study and skills initiatives were born of or driven by the project.
4. Instead of a pulley, the cord, which was a piece of twine, was passed through a little staple made of wire and driven into the board.
5. In France it was called the bandalore; there was also an ivory counterpart known as the emigrette, because it was a favorite with emigre nobles driven from Paris during the French Revolution.
6. M. Passitch, the Servian Premier, in an interview with the Greek Minister at Nish, expressed his profound dismay at the corner into which Servia was driven; much as she resented this proposal, the fact that she was
   entirely dependent on the Entente forced her to give it consideration.
7. But those best qualified to judge of what was coming, and in a position to frame the corresponding policy, had been driven into reserve by the storm of calumny, whereby their motives were misconstrued, their counsels derided, and their authority undermined; so that in the general uproar their voices were scarcely heard.
8. Their Consuls were arrested, members of their Legations were assaulted, great numbers of their nationals were led into captivity or driven into exile, their merchant ships were seized, and the Ministers themselves were deprived of all means of communicating with their Governments.
9. Lastly, a continued bombardment might have driven the Greeks to exasperation and perhaps to a massacre of Entente Ministers and subjects.
10. Now that he was gone, they brooded over the wrongs which had driven him, a lawful and popular king, into exile.
11. In order to better develop Dalarnia and get the best use of the resources, lands will be sold to ambitious entrepreneurs that are driven both to make the world a more attractive place for new entrants and to make a fortune for themselves.

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Sentence Examples

This Doctor Gnot has the whole town driven crazy with his silly little radio show.

He was always driven. He was always obsessed.

I felt that the two of you Would be a good challenge for each other in fair grounds Because I chose a song that’s a little more pop-driven,

Have I never driven this car before?

«We had been driven mad by hunger and the cold.

They were driven to a frenzy by Sahak, who wouldn»t kill his man.

They have driven me from hearth and home, from wife and child…»

Irresistable passion has driven him to death’s ancestral door.

You and I would also be driven to confess mysterious talents with the help of such tools.

At the same time, driven by the fatal breath of the vampire, the vessel moved rapidly toward the Baltic.

A CITY CLERK driven FROM HIS JOB!»

This obsession with having a baby has driven us crazy.

The runaway, driven by his love had only one thought. Ochio.

It was Gjermund who was driven to this confused action by insane jealousy.

Before the sunset, gather here all the driven-away cattle! ..

driven by hunger from their own land the poor people of Svanetia the farmers and field workers the workers from tangerine orchards carry the salt back to their own land.

The horse is to be driven to death.

Why, a week of it’s nearly driven me crazy. If they want to do the other thing…

Before their first performance, they are driven here like a criminal to the scene of the crime.

120 days earlier, four godless and unprincipled scoundrels had, driven by their depravity, shut themselves away to indulge in the most bestial of orgies

A single week has driven me half crazy!

«They kill him with one blow on a stake driven through his heart.»

Son, don’t you see? My hands are bleeding where the spikes have been driven through.

They’ve driven us miles from anywhere but we’ll leave anyway!

IN THEIR FRAIL CANOE THROUGH STORMS UNDER A BURNING SKY THIRST-CRAZED AND STARVING… ALWAYS driven ON BY FEAR… FEAR OF THE AVENGING TABU.

Now, it is my theory that one of us in the past, through dire necessity, was driven to cannibalism.

Ever driven a 6-cylinder?

An iron stake was driven through her heart, nailing her horrid soul to the earth.

Only result is they’re driven crazy from fear of a scandal.

When humanity, subjugated by the terror of crime, has been driven insane by fear and horror,

Yes, Mr. Hanlon. You must’ve driven all night.

You’ve driven me near madness with your peering through the keyholes and gaping through the curtains.

I’ll have you driven quietly back here.

But if walls can be driven back, I can do it.

We must have been driven off our course.

SO PREVIOUSLY, YOU HAD driven MR. SUTHERLAND TO THE STANLEY HOME, IS THAT IT?

You must’ve driven in a place where you were the only driver.

I’m not going to have my customers driven away.

Himself an ex-carriage driver, and the master driven to his office every morning,

If returning health must bring with it such a sad change of character, I should be driven to wish that you were once more lying helpless on this sofa.

You know nothing of the brutal tyranny of the senses and how even the strongest and best are driven by it to hell.

That’ll give you an idea of what I’ve been driven to.

It’s a wonder that I’m not driven stark-staring mad trying to keep this place clean.

Where are the times when I am driven to madness by a man?

That if you left me it wouId be because I had driven you away myself.

But I haven’t driven you away, and yet you’ve gone.

I wonder if I have driven you away.

The difficult case is a normal person who is driven to crime through passion or need.

If at some future time your nerves get the better of you and you’re driven to some desperate measure… leave a little note behind telling me where the stone is.