Valancourt was the hero of one of the most famous romances which ever was published in this country.—Id.
It is one of the errors which has been diligently propagated by designing writers.—Irving.
"I am going to breakfast with one of these fellows who is at the Piazza Hotel."—Dickens.
The "Economy of the Animal Kingdom" is one of those books which is an honor to the human race.—Emerson.
Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants of any that has fallen under my observation.—Addison.
The richly canopied monument of one of the most earnest souls that ever gave itself to the arts.—Ruskin.
III. OMISSION OF THE RELATIVE.
416. Although the omission of the relative is common when it would be the object of the verb or preposition expressed, there is an omission which is not frequently found in careful writers; that is, when the relative word is a pronoun, object of a preposition understood, or is equivalent to the conjunction when, where, whence, and such like: as, "He returned by the same route [by which] he came;" "India is the place [in which, or where] he died." Notice these sentences:—
In the posture I lay, I could see nothing except the sky.—Swift.
This is he that should marshal us the way we were going.—Emerson.