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Love in the Time of Cholera
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- From the entrance door to the kitchen, the floor was covered with black and white checkerboard tiles, a fact often attributed to Dr. Urbino's ruling passion without taking into account that this was a weakness common to the Catalonian craftsmen who built this district for the nouveaux riches at the beginning of the century.†
Chpt 1attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- He read slowly, making his way through the meanderings of a slight headache that he attributed to the half glass of brandy at the final toast.†
Chpt 1 *
- Two days later, of course, he had to write the boy's reply with the same hand, style, and kind of love that he had attributed to him in the first letter, and so it was that he became involved in a feverish correspondence with himself.†
Chpt 4
- Then, in a flash of inspiration that they attributed to a conjunction of their stars, the two of them undressed in the next room without agreeing to, without even suggesting it or proposing it to each other, and for more than seven years they continued undressing wherever they could while the Captain was on a trip.†
Chpt 4
- But he feared the old method: a note slipped under the door by an unknown hand could be effective, not only because it guaranteed the double anonymity of sender and receiver, but because its time-honored ancestry permitted one to attribute to it some kind of metaphysical connection to the designs of Divine Providence.†
Chpt 5attribute = credit (point to as the source of something)
- But when he accepted his baldness with all his heart, he attributed to it the masculine virtues that he had heard about and scorned as nothing but the fantasies of bald men.†
Chpt 5attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- With the first loneliness of her widowhood she had understood that the phrase did not conceal the miserable threat that she had attributed to it at the time, but was the lodestone that had given them both so many happy hours.†
Chpt 6
- At the last minute, in case Fermina Daza was suspicious enough to attribute some meaning to it, he removed the thorns.†
Chpt 6attribute = credit (point to as the source of something)
- Signed with the pseudonym "Jupiter," it was so reasoned, incisive, and well written that it was attributed to some of the most notable writers in the province.†
Chpt 6attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
- Dr. Urbino attributed it to the natural hardheartedness of women, which allows the earth to continue revolving around the sun, because at that time he did not know that she always erected a barrier of wrath to hide her fear.†
Chpt 5
- To his brother Masons, who attributed all evils to the failure of federalism, he would always reply: "The War of a Thousand Days was lost twenty-three years ago in the war of '76.†
Chpt 5
- It was she who attributed a distinctive sensuality to the enemas he used for his crises of constipation, who convinced him to share them with her, and they took them together in the course of their mad afternoons as they tried to create even more love within their love.†
Chpt 5
- America Vicuna attributed it to a hidden cause whose intricacies she could not decipher.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(attribute as in: It is an attribute of...) a characteristic or feature (of something or someone)
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(2)
(attribute as in: I attribute it to...) to credit (a source for something)in two typical senses:
- "I attribute it to her work." -- to say who or what made something happen
- "Remember to attribute any quotations in your paper." -- indicate the source of a quotation or idea
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)