"Drive up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ice would cause great destruction. They all hastened through breakfast, Leonard and Webb that they might relieve the more valuable fruit and evergreen trees of the weight of ice, and Burt and Amy for a drive up the mountain. ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... great bunch of roses represented him. It had been Charlotte's express command that nobody should go to the station to meet the returning travellers, but that everybody should be in the little brick house to welcome them when they should drive up. ...
— The Second Violin • Grace S. Richmond
... girl, who had been conversing most rationally with Acme, moved forward, and made a signal for the carriage to drive up. ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... the scenes that lay beyond. Why had he not L10,000 a year—L5000—nay, L1000 a year—and freedom? Why could he not warm his soul with the consciousness that the salmon-rods were all packed and waiting in the hall; that new casting-lines had been put in the fly-book; that only the short drive up to Euston and a single black night lay between him and all the wide wonder of the world that would open out thereafter? Forth from the darkness into a whiter light—a larger day—a sweeter air; for now we are among the russet beech-hedges, the deep-green pines, the purple ...
— Prince Fortunatus • William Black
... the following morning, had been fixed for the interview with the sailor and his counsel. Hazlehurst was walking on the piazza, as the time approached, and punctual to the moment, he saw a carriage drive up to the house; in it were Mr. Reed, Mr. Clapp, and their client. Harry stopped to receive them; and, as they mounted the steps one after the other, he bowed respectfully to Mr. Reed, slightly to Mr. Clapp, and fixed his eye steadily on the ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper
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