All 4 Uses of
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Crime and Punishment
- The young man often recalled this impression afterwards, and even ascribed it to presentiment.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- "Well, strictly speaking, it did," Porfiry observed with noteworthy gravity; "a crime of that nature may be very well ascribed to the influence of environment."†
Chpt 3.5
- "I'll prove to you that your white eyelashes may very well be ascribed to the Church of Ivan the Great's being two hundred and fifty feet high, and I will prove it clearly, exactly, progressively, and even with a Liberal tendency!†
Chpt 3.5
- But the "humane" Andrey Semyonovitch ascribed Pyotr Petrovitch's ill-humour to his recent breach with Dounia and he was burning with impatience to discourse on that theme.†
Chpt 5.1
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(ascribe) attribute or credit to