Word: driven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there are many little annoyances that break up our time, and prevent a man from devoting his whole energies to his work. Such annoyances must be slight in themselves, but the effects which they often produce are out of all proportion to their own importance. Who has not been driven from his books by the advent of the daily hag, more ugly than the witches in Macbeth, showing in her own person an utter contempt for cleanliness, and secretly wondering at the foolishness of a man who cares to have his carpet swept and his table dusted...
...shirking women, who have to do their work in three hundred rooms. Even if he is ever visited, he finds a single complaint of no use, for the "Queen Goody" has no time to see that her subordinate carries out her orders; and when, by reiterated complaints, she is driven to remove the obnoxious woman, the scarcity of candidates for the laborious and unpleasant duty forces her to be content with transferring to a new sphere a Goody who has already shown herself incapable in one entry...
...Being driven around the city once by a man who, by his devotional signs made at every church we passed by, seemed to be a very devout Catholic, I determined to address him in Latin, and began in the approved Lanonian style to repeat to him the "Ave Maria." "Si, si, is entende," was the reply; and in a few minutes he drew up before a place with the sign "Sorvetes," which I had previously learned, by experience bien entendu, meant "American drinks compounded." I did not enlighten him, however, and I feel certain that he thinks to this...
...that old Winter has barred the Charles alike to the single-scull and the six-oar, driven even the most enthusiastic lover of baseball from Jarvis, and made foot-ball a chill pleasure, we look around us for other means of keeping our muscles firm and our joints supple...
...particularly, have realized this week the importance of a second crew. They have lost, in their short boating-experience, six of their best men from one cause and another, and now, a fortnight before the race comes off, in order to put in an appearance at all, they are driven to the second crew. Two of the best men have been taken from it and put on the first crew, which, in spite of a new stroke, and a prospect by no means enlivening, is doing tolerably well...