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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Drive

Driving like a bedlamite.
—Richard Cumberland

Drives him, like a lightning.
—Homer (Pope)

Drive her foes from their savage job
As a mad black Bullock would scatter a mob.
—Thomas Hood

Drives like rain to the roots.
—George Meredith

Drive like chaff before the blust’ring wind.
—George Sandys

Drive
Like mists before the blasts of dawn.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Drives out opposition, as the sun drives out the night.
—S. G. Tallentyre

Drove like a cataract.
—Alfred Tennyson

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away.
—Old Testament

The driving is like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
—Old Testament