ing 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.--DICKENS

II. Other Relations expressed by _Of_.

(6) _Partitive_, expressing a part of a number or quantity.

_Of_ the Forty, there were only twenty-one members present.
--PARTON.

He washed out some _of_ the dirt, separating thereby as much of
the dust as a ten-cent piece would hold.--BANCROFT.

[Sidenote: _See also Sec. 309._]

(7) _Possessive_, standing, with its object, for the possessive, or
being used with the possessive case to form the double possessive.

Not even woman's love, and the dignity _of_ a queen, could give
shelter from his contumely.--W.E. CHANNING.

And the mighty secret _of_ the Sierra stood revealed.--BANCROFT.

(8) _Appositional_, which may be in the case of--

(_a_) Nouns.

Such a book as that _of_ Job.--FROUDE.

The fair city _of_ Mexico.--PRESCOTT.

The nation _of_ Lilliput.--SWIFT.

(_b_) Noun and gerund, being equivalent to an infinitive.

In the vain hope _of_ appeasing the savages.--COOPER.

Few people take the trouble _of_ finding out what democracy
really is.--LOWELL.

(_c_) Two nouns, when the first is descriptive of the second.

This crampfish _of_ a Socrates has so bewitched him.--EMERSON

A sorry antediluvian makeshift _of_ a building you may think
it.--LAMB.

An inexhaustible bottle _of_ a shop.--ALDRICH.

(9) _Of time._ Besides the phrases _of old_, _of late_, _of a sudden_,
etc., _of_ is used in the sense of _during_.

I used often to linger _of_ a morning by the high gate.