She will expect more attention from you, as my
     friend.—­WALPOLE.

     There was a certain grace and decorum hardly to be expected
     from a man.—­MACAULAY.

     I have long expected something remarkable from you.—­G.  ELIOT.

465.  “Part with” is used with both persons and things, but “part from” is less often found in speaking of things.

Illustrations of “part with,” “part from:”—­

[Sidenote:  “Part with.”]

     He was fond of everybody that he was used to, and hated to part
     with them.—­AUSTEN.

     Cleveland was sorry to part with him.—­BULWER.

     I can part with my children for their good.—­DICKENS.

     I part with all that grew so near my heart.—­WALLER.

[Sidenote:  “Part from.”]

     To part from you would be misery.—­MARRYAT.

     I have just seen her, just parted from her.—­BULWER.

     Burke parted from him with deep emotion.—­MACAULAY.

     His precious bag, which he would by no means part from.—­G. 
     ELIOT.

[Sidenote:  Kind in you, kind of you.]

466.  With words implying behavior or disposition, either of or in is used indifferently, as shown in the following quotations:—­

[Sidenote:  Of.]

     It was a little bad of you.—­TROLLOPE.

     How cruel of me!—­COLLINS.

     He did not think it handsome of you.—­BULWER.

     But this is idle of you.—­TENNYSON.

[Sidenote:  In.]

     Very natural in Mr. Hampden.—­CARLYLE.

     It will be anything but shrewd in you.—­DICKENS.

     That is very unreasonable in a person so young.—­BEACONSFIELD.

     I am wasting your whole morning—­too bad in me.—­BULWER.

Miscellaneous Examples for Correction.

1.  Can you imagine Indians or a semi-civilized people engaged on a work like the canal connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas?

2.  In the friction between an employer and workman, it is commonly said that his profits are high.

3.  None of them are in any wise willing to give his life for the life of his chief.

4.  That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do.

5.  Art is neither to be achieved by effort of thinking, nor explained by accuracy of speaking.

6.  To such as thee the fathers owe their fame.

7.  We tread upon the ancient granite that first divided the waters into a northern and southern ocean.

8.  Thou tread’st, with seraphims, the vast abyss.