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.—­ALDRICH

     I delighted to loll over the quarter railing of a calm day. 
     —­IRVING.

(10) Of reference, equal to about, concerning, with regard to.

     The Turk lay dreaming of the hour.—­HALLECK.

     Boasted of his prowess as a scalp hunter and
     duelist.—­BANCROFT.

     Sank into reverie of home and boyhood scenes.—­Id.

[Sidenote:  Idiomatic use with verbs.]

Of is also used as an appendage of certain verbs, such as admit, accept, allow, approve, disapprove, permit, without adding to their meaning.  It also accompanies the verbs tire, complain, repent, consist, avail (one’s self), and others.

Exercise.—­Find sentences with six uses of of.

On, Upon.

324.  The general meaning of on is position or direction. On and upon are interchangeable in almost all of their applications, as shown by the sentences below:—­

(1) Place:  (a) Where.

     Cannon were heard close on the left.—­PARKMAN.

     The Earl of Huntley ranged his host
     Upon their native strand.—­MRS. SIGOURNEY.

(b) With motion.

     It was the battery at Samos firing on the boats.—­PARKMAN.

     Thou didst look down upon the naked earth.—­BRYANT.

(2) Time.

     The demonstration of joy or sorrow on reading their letters. 
     —­BANCROFT.