“Nay, if your worship can accomplish that,” answered Master
     Brackett, “I shall own you for a man of skill indeed!”
     —­HAWTHORNE.

     Wavering whether he should put his son to death for an
     unnatural monster.—­LAMB.

(7) Concession, meaning although, considering that etc.

     “For a fool,” said the Lady of Lochleven, “thou hast counseled
     wisely.”—­SCOTT

     By my faith, that is a very plump hand for a man of
     eighty-four!—­PARTON.

(8) Meaning notwithstanding, or in spite of.

     But the Colonel, for all his title, had a forest of poor
     relations.—­HOLMES.

     Still, for all slips of hers,
     One of Eve’s family.—­HOOD.

(9) Motive, cause, reason, incitement to action.

     The twilight being...hardly more wholesome for its glittering
     mists of midge companies.—­RUSKIN.

     An Arab woman, but a few sunsets since, ate her child, for
     famine.—­Id.

     Here Satouriona forgot his dignity, and leaped for
     joy.—­PARKMAN.

(10) For with its object preceding the infinitive, and having the same meaning as a noun clause, as shown by this sentence:—­

It is by no means necessary that he should devote his whole school existence to physical science; nay, more, it is not necessary for him to give up more than a moderate share of his time to such studies.—­HUXLEY.

Exercise.—­Find sentences with five meanings of for.

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:—­