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Drive around   /draɪv ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Drive around

verb
1.
Drive someone in a vehicle.  Synonym: chauffeur.
2.
Drive without any particular aim.





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"Drive around" Quotes from Famous Books



... villages did the noteworthy things become legion, and there were few houses that did not offer her opportunity for comment. To sit at home all the time was no use, said she; one always kept seeing the same things. One ought to drive around the country from time to time; then one could not merely gratify his curiosity, but learn a lot too. Folks didn't do things everywhere alike, and in some places they did better than in others, and so one could always pick and choose the best. They had not driven much more than, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various
... or three little matters which I want to have put in order, besides the belt. I will stay and look after it, and the rest of you can take your choice of two proceedings. One is, to go to a hotel, rest and freshen yourselves up a bit, and have some luncheon. The other is, to take a carriage and drive around the city. Hartford is a beautiful place, and if Patty has never seen it, I am ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells
... unobstructed stretch of fifty yards, he drove like Phoebus breaking in the horses of the Sun, careering this and that way, weaving patterns in among the frightened men who stood like posts for him to drive around. He missed them by a hand's breadth—less! He took delight in driving at them, turning in the last half-second, smiling at a blanched face as he wheeled and wove new figures down another zigzag avenue of men. ...
— Caesar Dies • Talbot Mundy
... dissatisfaction pursued him. He constantly felt that things were not what he expected them to be, and what they should be. During his service in the Senate, his relations obtained for him the post of gentleman of the Emperor's bed-chamber, and he was obliged to drive around in gorgeous uniform to thank various people. In this post he felt even more than before out of place. At the same time, on the one hand, he could not refuse the appointment, because he would not disappoint those who thought they were ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy


Words linked to "Drive around" :   drive, chauffeur, act


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