From.
322. The general idea in from is separation or source. It may be with regard to--
(1) _Place._
Like boys escaped _from_ school.--H.H. BANCROFT
Thus they drifted _from_ snow-clad ranges to burning plain.--_Id._
(2) _Origin._
Coming _from_ a race of day-dreamers, Ayrault had inherited the faculty of dreaming also by night.--HIGGINSON.
_From_ harmony, _from_ heavenly harmony This universal frame began.--DRYDEN.
(3) _Time._
A distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become _from_ the night of that fearful dream--HAWTHORNE.
(4) _Motive_, _cause_, or _reason_.
It was _from_ no fault of Nolan"s.--HALE.
The young cavaliers, _from_ a desire of seeming valiant, ceased to be merciful.--BANCROFT.
Exercise.--Find sentences with three meanings of _from_.
Of.
323. The original meaning of of was separation or source, like _from_. The various uses are shown in the following examples:--
I. The _From_ Relation.
(1) _Origin or source._
The king holds his authority _of_ the people.--MILTON.
Thomas a Becket was born _of_ reputable parents in the city of London.--HUME.
(2) _Separation_: (_a_) After certain verbs, such as _ease_, _demand_, _rob_, _divest_, _free_, _clear_, _purge_, _disarm_, _deprive_, _relieve_, _cure_, _rid_, _beg_, _ask_, etc.
Two old Indians cleared the spot _of_ brambles, weeds, and gra.s.s.--PARKMAN.
Asked no odds _of_, acquitted them _of,_ etc.--ALDRICH.
(_b_) After some adjectives,--_clear of_, _free of_, _wide of_, _bare of_, etc.; especially adjectives and adverbs of direction, as _north of_, _south of_, etc.
The hills were bare _of_ trees.--BAYARD TAYLOR.
Back _of_ that tree, he had raised a little Gothic chapel.
--GAVARRE.
(_c_) After nouns expressing lack, deprivation, etc.
A singular want _of_ all human relation.--HIGGINSON.
_(d)_ With words expressing distance.
Until he had come within a staff"s length _of_ the old dame.
--HAWTHORNE
Within a few yards _of_ the young man"s hiding place.--_Id._
(3) _With expressions of material_, especially _out of_.
White shirt with diamond studs, or breastpin _of_ native gold.--BANCROFT.
Sandals, bound with thongs _of_ boar"s hide.--SCOTT
Who formed, _out of_ the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had yet seen.--MACAULAY
(4) _Expressing cause, reason, motive._
The author died _of_ a fit of apoplexy.--BOSWELL.
More than one altar was richer _of_ his vows.--LEW WALLACE.
"Good for him!" cried Nolan. "I am glad _of_ that."--E.E. HALE.
(5) _Expressing agency._
You cannot make a boy know, _of_ his own knowledge, that Cromwell once ruled England.--HUXLEY.
He is away _of_ his own free will.--d.i.c.kENS
II. Other Relations expressed by _Of_.
(6) _Part.i.tive_, expressing a part of a number or quant.i.ty.
_Of_ the Forty, there were only twenty-one members present.
--PARTON.