Like boys escaped _from_ school.--H.H. BANCROFT
Thus they drifted _from_ snow-clad ranges to burning plain.--_Id._
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.
A distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become _from_ the night of that fearful dream--HAWTHORNE.
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_.
323. The original meaning of of was separation or source, like _from_. The various uses are shown in the following examples:--
The king holds his authority _of_ the people.--MILTON.
Thomas à 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 grass.--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.
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
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.
You cannot make a boy know, _of_ his own knowledge, that Cromwell once ruled England.--HUXLEY.