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June made a pffff sound with her lips while August shook her head, and it washed over me for the first time in my life just how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment, how lately it seemed that skin pigment was the sun and everything else in the universe was the orbiting planets. (source)ascribed = attributed or credited to
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The shrill squeaks and resonant groans produced by these must be ascribed to frictional vibration, and should not be mistaken for speech.† (source)ascribed = attributes or credits to
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Look at you—you never even believed in G-G-G-God; you've said so, and here you are ascribing to the h-h-h-hand of God everything that happened to Owen M-M-M-Meany!† (source)
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They have more or less the same properties as those which Democritus ascribed to atoms.† (source)
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The famous blink ascribed to Kennedy's steady nerves was, as in many such events throughout history, facilitated by his ability to see the other man's cards.† (source)
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Why is it every time there's a killing of consequence, we ascribe it to Cain?† (source)
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This had been ascribed to a fictional "sandtrout" in Fremen folk stories.† (source)ascribed = attributes or credits to
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To him ascribe all sin.† (source)
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He then takes from his pocket a pair of spectacles and from the basket a book) COMMON MAN (Reading) "Whether we follow tradition in ascribing Wolsey's death to a broken heart, or accept Professor Larcomb's less feeling diagnosis of pulmonary pneumonia, its effective cause was the King's displeasure.† (source)
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The accents of an unknown tongue, however harsh they might have sounded when uttered by another, had, coming from the beautiful Rebecca, the romantic and pleasing effect which fancy ascribes to the charms pronounced by some beneficent fairy, unintelligible, indeed, to the ear, but, from the sweetness of utterance, and benignity of aspect, which accompanied them, touching and affecting to the heart.† (source)
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The interval between the delivery of this message, and the arrival of Mr Squeers, was very short; but, before he came, Ralph had suppressed every sign of emotion, and once more regained the hard, immovable, inflexible manner which was habitual to him, and to which, perhaps, was ascribable no small part of the influence which, over many men of no very strong prejudices on the score of morality, he could exert, almost at will.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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"The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat; All therefore whatsoever they bid you doe, that observe and doe;" hee declareth plainly, that hee ascribeth Kingly Power, for that time, not to himselfe, but to them.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She ascribeth" in older English, today we say "She ascribes."
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Then he said: "I hope I am not trespassing over a duty ascribed to someone else present here, but then I had heard no proposals for anyone to give a toast in thanks to our host, the most honourable and kind Lord Darlington."† (source)
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Until that day they had never given a name to the eccentricities of their youngest daughter, nor had it ever crossed their minds to ascribe them to satanic influence.† (source)
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She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.† (source)
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To Temperance he ascribes his long-continued health, and what is still left to him of a good constitution;† (source)
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