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attribute or credit to

She didn't hesitate with her response: it was the tendency of people to ascribe mystery or some saintly qualities to the simple work they did.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

The personal appearance of Eliza, the character ascribed to her, are sketches drawn from life.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
Specific provisions, although not useless, have less virtue than commonly ascribed to them.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Not unto me the strength be ascribed; not unto me the wringing of the expiation!'
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
This had been ascribed to a fictional "sandtrout" in Fremen folk stories.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
The rest I ascribe to chaos theory.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
The Bible -- Job
Such nations assign a different origin to the supreme power, but they ascribe to that power the same characteristics.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
Yet, as his departure will mark the moment when the difficulties begin to work, you will see, that they will be ascribed to the new administration.
David McCullough -- John Adams
There is nothing wrong in the thoughts I ascribe to Hippolyte; they are only natural.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
I did not ascribe any intentions to these men.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
[1] An image of Christ upon the cross, ascribed to Nicodemus, still venerated at Lucca.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
It is to be ascribed to moral cau—
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
"There, you always ascribe base, vile motives to me," she said with tears of wounded pride and fury.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
Poor Johnnie surely had need of such optimism as Stoddard had ascribed to her.
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
He knew she would not understand how many truly fine things he ascribed to her when he thought of her as gallant.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
At first, he did not know whether to ascribe the course they held to accident or to design; but he now began to suspect the latter.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
Certainly those cultures still ascribe to the practice of slaveholding.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
I've heard many characteristics ascribed to him, but 'pliable' has never been one of them.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

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