Literary notes about Drove (AI summary)
Writers employ the word "drove" in a variety of ways to evoke both physical and metaphorical momentum. At times it describes literal motion—a carriage or coach traversing country roads ([1], [2]) or the physical act of moving people or objects from one locale to another ([3], [4]). In other contexts, "drove" connotes a forceful impetus, as when characters are compelled by circumstance or emotion, whether marching a rebel from his position ([5]) or having inner feelings forcibly stirred to action ([6], [7]). In depictions of battle or heroic quests, the term energizes the narrative with the explosive force of armies or mythic beings ([8], [9]), demonstrating its capacity to bridge tangible movement with evocative symbolic power.
- At first he drove like a snail and now how he is dashing along!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - " We drove to Kurilovka together, and there the carpenters asked us for a drink.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The Officials drank coffee and rolls, then put on their uniforms and drove to the Pension Bureau.
— from Best Russian Short Stories - So he took the cord in his hand, and drove away the pig quickly along a by-path.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - However, no long time after this the followers of Megacles and those of Lycurgos joined together and drove him forth.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus - Katerina Ivanovna's “returns” to Mitya, that is, her brief but violent revulsions of feeling in his favor, drove Ivan to perfect frenzy.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The agony of it drove him up from the bed and out of the room.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham - Then furiously they drove their horses at each other, and came together as it had been thunder.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory - At Anxur’s shield he drove; and, at the blow, Both shield and arm to ground together go.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil