UNDER NOTE II.—ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.
“There is no expecting of the admiration of beholders.”—Baxter cor. “There is no hiding of you in the house.”—Shak. cor. “For the better regulating of government in the province of Massachusetts.”—Brit. Parl. cor. “The precise marking of the shadowy boundaries of a complex government.”—Adams cor. “This state of discipline requires the voluntary foregoing of many things which we desire, and the setting of ourselves to what we have no inclination to.”—Bp. Butler cor. “This amounts to an active setting of themselves against religion.”—Id. “Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing of our Christian discipline.”—Friends cor. “Some men are so unjust that there is no securing of our own property or life, but by opposing force to force.”—Rev. John Brown cor. “An Act for the better securing of the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.”—Geo. III cor. “Miraculous curing of the sick is discontinued.”—Barclay cor. “It would have been no transgressing of the apostle’s rule.”—Id. “As far as consistent with the proper conducting of the business of the House.”—Elmore cor. “Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning of them at that day.” Or:—“at their just condemnation at that day.”—Bunyan cor. “That transferring of this natural manner will insure propriety.”—Rush cor. “If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old [i.e., frequent] turning of the key.”—Singer’s Shakspeare cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.
“So very simple a thing as a man’s wounding of himself.”—Dr. Blair cor., and Murray. “Or with that man’s avowing of his designs.”—Blair, Mur., et al. cor. “On his putting of the question.”—Adams cor. “The importance of teachers’ requiring of their pupils to read each section many times over.”—Kirkham cor. “Politeness is a kind of forgetting of one’s self, in order to be agreeable to others.”—Ramsay cor. “Much, therefore, of the merit and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing of us into some acquaintance with the writer.”—Blair and Mack