drive back
verb- To force someone or something to retreat or move away; repel.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, back.
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“To surround the scaffold with twenty of my best men, who, at a signal from me, will rush forward directly Peppino is brought for execution, and, by the assistance of their stilettos, drive back the guard, and carry off the prisoner.”
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