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