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_.
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