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drove

1. a narrow irrigation channel
2. a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
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drove

A mason’s chisel having a blade from 2 to 4 in. (5 to 10 cm) broad; a boaster.
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"You drove a lady from here to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Depot last Friday?" he asked.
Pavel drove. The party set out with singing and the jingle of sleigh-bells, the groom's sledge going first.
A breeze from the north drove little puffs of white cloud across an ultramarine sky, with a bright sea running under it.
Here Billy picked fruit, then drove team; and here Saxon received a letter and a tiny express package from Bud Strothers.
Upon this the Danaans drove the Trojans back, and each one of their chieftains killed his man.
The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot.
Later when he drove back home and when night came on and the stars came out it was harder to get back the old feeling of a close and personal God who lived in the sky overhead and who might at any moment reach out his hand, touch him on the shoulder, and appoint for him some heroic task to be done.
Presently, with the utmost ease, he rolled the stone away from the door and drove out his sheep, but he at once put it back again--as easily as though he were merely clapping the lid on to a quiver full of arrows.
Then he was very angry and sulky, and would not speak to her at all; but they watched the geese until it grew dark in the evening, and then drove them homewards.
"Who don't know anything of us, and where it comes from; or think how we two drove miles across the moor tonight in the rain that it might reach 'em in time?"
With others Balaga bargained, charging twenty-five rubles for a two hours' drive, and rarely drove himself, generally letting his young men do so.
'I once drove to Pashutino with him in half an hour.'
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