Literary notes about FROM (AI summary)
In these passages, “from” frequently anchors movement, origin, and separation. Sometimes it identifies the source of an object or idea, as when letters seem to come “from my niece” ([1]) or when Quasimodo is poised to leap “from the summit of Notre-Dame” to aid Claude ([2]). In other instances, “from” marks distance or transition, whether describing people “so far from lively” ([3]) or setting someone “apart from the world” ([4]). There are also times it conveys exemption or removal—for example, players excluded “from all civic honours” ([5]) or being freed “from suspicion” ([6]). Across these works, “from” thus serves a versatile function—indicating everything from origin and point of departure to separation and release.
- He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop, that they come from my niece, and that she's in love with him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - A sign from Claude and the idea of giving him pleasure would have sufficed to make Quasimodo hurl himself headlong from the summit of Notre-Dame.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - Who would have guessed that these people, so far from lively and so silent, were our friends, the Judge's comrades?
— from Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz - He contrived, on all occasions, to hide his beneficence, not only from the world, but even from the object of it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding - The gods demand stage-plays in their own honour; the Romans exclude the players from all civic honours:
— from The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - 1191 The honor of an ambassador should be exempt from suspicion; and Edecon had listened to a conspiracy against the life of his sovereign.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
