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Example sentences for "driven from"

  • Driven from Kyushu, the Taira chiefs had obtained a footing in Shikoku and had built fortifications at Yashima in Sanuki, which became thenceforth their headquarters.

  • Driven from place to place, he at last found refuge at Berleburg, and died there in A.

  • His work first gained importance when driven from Mecca he fled to Medina (Hejira, 15th July, A.

  • When the Doubters are slain or driven from Mansoul, after her conversion, they go straggling up and down the country enslaving the barbarous people (the margin informs us that the unbeliever never fights the Doubters).

  • See Calvin is Driven from Paris, page 176.

  • The Christians, driven from Jerusalem, were scattered throughout the countries of the East.

  • If you do not obey, your families will be driven from Syria, and God will plant in your places other nations better than you.

  • Driven from Rheims, Gerbert was received by Otho the III.

  • Henry, driven from Italy by the troops of the Countess Matilda, retired to Germany.

  • When the edict went forth that Carthach and his monks were to be driven from Rahan, we are told that he departed reluctantly.

  • The fierce Markwald, driven from Romagna by the papal triumph, claimed the regency and the custody of the King.

  • Pope Gregory IX driven from Rome by the senate and citizens, who resist his temporal power and seize his revenues; he appeals to Emperor Frederick II for assistance.

  • Four hundred families of Oghusian Tartars, driven from Khorassan, effect a settlement near Mount Olympus; from these the Ottomans descend.

  • Driven from France on the death of Louis, they took refuge in Holland, and thither the Pope Clement XI.

  • When greatly heated by the flame of oxidation, it is driven from place to place without coloring the flame, but when volatilized by the flame of reduction, it tinges the flame blue.

  • It may be driven from place to place by the application of either flame; but in so doing, the oxide is first reduced by the heated charcoal, and the metallic bismuth so formed is volatilized and reoxidized.

  • As oxide of cadmium is easily reduced, and the metal very volatile, the coating of oxide may be driven from place to place by the application of either flame, to neither of which does it impart any color.

  • It may be driven from place to place by the flame of oxidation, while that of reduction volatilizes it with a green flame.

  • Driven from Vermont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall yet find some independent territory on which to plant our tents.

  • At a somewhat later date, 1547, the elegant poet and artist Nicolas Denisot arrived in England, driven from Paris by an unfortunate love affair.

  • Driven from Scotland, in many cases, by James I.

  • England became a more hospitable abode for the Protestants, driven from France in increasing numbers by the persecutions sanctioned by Henry II.

  • If Caesar is driven from Spain, you can imagine how pleasing and honourable my arrival will seem to Pompey, when I suppose even Curio will go over to him.

  • It is reported here that Cassius has been driven from Ancona, and that our party hold the town.

  • For either, as I should much prefer, Caesar must be driven from Spain, or the war will drag on, or Caesar will seize Spain, as he seems to be confident.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and give; become famous; bodily form; driven away; driven back; driven from; driven over; else they; fifty pounds; foot thick; negro children; past seven; piece called; provisional government; right whale; said her; seem good; select party; shrank from; single thing; space equal; thar hain; through their; twas plain; will attend