Driven-away Sentence Examples

Wilkes-Barre in 1763, but were (October 15th) attacked and driven away by the Indians.

The whites who were responsible for the conduct of the blacks were warned or driven away by social and business ostracism or by violence.

In the course of this ceremony, after the sacrifice, men rush in all directions carrying torches; the women also carry fire-brands, or knock on the houses with rice-crushers and other heavy implements, and thus the evil spirits are considered to be driven away.

After being the popular favourite of Israel in the little district of Benjamin, he was driven away by the jealousy and animosity of Saul.

Their violent anti-Magyar attitude has driven away a certain amount of Hungarian custom, and helped to increase the political difficulties of the cis-Leithan government.

Two centuries B.C. the region was occupied by the fair and blue-eyed Ussuns, who were driven away in the 6th century of our era by the northern Huns.

They lie entangled in a vast net of sea-weed; are the resort of innumerable birds, and used to be largely frequented by seals and sea-otters, which, however, have been almost completely driven away by unregulated hunting.

During these works some local archaeologists attempted to penetrate the cave but were driven away by the labourers with curses.

Yet in the loneliness of life at Berlin the idea of a wife as the comfort of gathering age sometimes rose before his mind - only to be driven away by cautious hesitations as to the capacity of his means, and by the shrinking from the loss of familiar liberties.

Any dust that may be lying upon the surface is not driven away to the edge of the drop, as would happen in the case of oil.

A few Frenchmen attempted to establish a settlement here in 1731, but were soon driven away by the Indians.

In the solar explanation, the serpent is the darkness driven away by the rays of the sun.

The critical time had arrived when the sea was to be driven away eastward, while the immense ridges due to the " Alpine " movements were about to emerge as the backbones of new continental lands.

He tried to make the clergy into an instrument of government by recalling the Jesuits, who had been driven away in 1594, partly from fear of their regicides, partly because they have always been the best teachers of servitude; and he gave theyouth of the nation into the hands of this cosmopolitan and ultramontane clerical order.

Wayne and Claire watched him leave and later he was driven away past a howling mob.