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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.
  1. 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
  2. " 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
  3. The Officials drank coffee and rolls, then put on their uniforms and drove to the Pension Bureau.
    — from Best Russian Short Stories
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. The agony of it drove him up from the bed and out of the room.
    — from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
  8. 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
  9. At Anxur’s shield he drove; and, at the blow, Both shield and arm to ground together go.
    — from The Aeneid by Virgil

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