From.
322. The general idea in from is separation or source. It may be with regard to—
(1) Place.
Like boys escaped from school.—H. H. Bancroft
Thus they drifted from snow-clad ranges to burning plain.—Id.
Coming from a race of day-dreamers, Ayrault had inherited the faculty of dreaming also by night.—Higginson.
From harmony, from heavenly harmony
This universal frame began.
—Dryden.
(3) Time.
A distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become from the night of that fearful dream—Hawthorne.
(4) Motive, cause, or reason.
It was from no fault of Nolan's.—Hale.
The young cavaliers, from a desire of seeming valiant, ceased to be merciful.—Bancroft.
Exercise.—Find sentences with three meanings of from.