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1. Expressing distance or motion.Examples: "Take the chicken out of the freezer."; "Sir said Galahad by this shelde ben many merueils fallen / Sir sayd the knyght hit befelle after the passion of our lord Ihesu Crist xxxij yere that Ioseph of Armathye the gentyl knyghte / the whiche took doune oure lord of the hooly Crosse att that tyme he departed from Iherusalem with a grete party of his kynred with hym"; "Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach to molest the head, read Hercules de Saxonia and others."dialectalobsolete

2. Expressing distance or motion.Examples: "He hasn't been well of late."; "And he axed his father: howe longe is it agoo, sens this hath happened hym? And he sayde, of a chylde."; "one that I brought vp of a puppy […] I was sent to deliuer him, as a present to Mistris Siluia, from my Master."

3. Expressing separation.Examples: "He was kindly treated by the people at Saco, and recovered of his wounds."obsolete

4. Expressing origin.Examples: "It is said that she died of a broken heart."; "He smelled of beer and cigarette smoke and his own body."; "Two men, one from Somalia and one from Zimbabwe, died of terminal illnesses shortly after their incarceration ended."

5. Expressing origin.Examples: "I am tired of all this nonsense."; "Lib Dems were appalled by Mr Boles’s offer, however kindly meant: the party is so frightened of losing its independence under Mr Clegg that such a pact would “kill” him, says a senior member."; "Thus, one finds individuals dead of a gunshot wound with potentially lethal levels of drugs."

6. Expressing agency.Examples: "I am not particularly enamoured of this idea."; "After a good while, the iewes toke cousell amonge themselves to kyll him. But their layinges awayte wer knowen of Saul."; "[S]he might appeare to be the lively patterne of another Lucrece, yet know I certainly that, both before that time and afterward, she had beene enjoyed of others upon easier composition."