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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
- It is to be ascribed to moral cau—James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- [1] An image of Christ upon the cross, ascribed to Nicodemus, still venerated at Lucca.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- "There, you always ascribe base, vile motives to me," she said with tears of wounded pride and fury.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- 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
- Poor Johnnie surely had need of such optimism as Stoddard had ascribed to her.Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
- 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