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 cor. "Richard's restoration to respectability depends on his paying of his debts."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Their supplying of ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing of the words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood."—Id. "Her veiling of herself, and shedding of tears, &c., her upbraiding of Paris for his cowardice," &c.—Blair cor. "A preposition may be made known by its admitting of a personal pronoun after it, in the objective case."—Murray et al. cor. "But this forms no just objection to its denoting of time."—L. Mur. cor. "Of men's violating or disregarding of the relations in which God has here placed them."—Bp. Butler cor. "Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man's killing of his antagonist in a duel."—Campbell cor. "His reminding of them."—Kirkham cor. "This mistake was corrected by his preceptor's causing of him to plant some beans."—Id. "Their neglecting of this was ruinous."—Frost cor. "That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing of the others as 'finite.'"—Felch cor. "His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing of it." Or:—"that he does it."—Sheridan cor.