Attributes

Examples

• The new legs last twice as long as the others used to do, and he attributes this solely to his temperate habits (triumphant cheers). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And it is now well known that he attributes this coincidence to descent with modification. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• As an incontrovertible proof that those baleful attributes were all there, Mrs Wilfer shuddered on the spot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Were the pride of ancestry, the patrician spirit, the gentle courtesies and refined pursuits, splendid attributes of rank, to be erased among us? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• See here, sir, at present I am worshipping a creature of my own creation, with the face of that picture, but with the attributes of fancy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributes--one is conscious of her presence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She thought she was prospering finely, but unconsciously she was beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In respect of ideality, reverence, wonder, and other such phrenological attributes, it is no worse off than it used to be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am not sure that I understand some passages; but it seems that he attributes much influence to the direct action of the conditions of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• What contradictory attributes of character we sometimes find ascribed to us, according to the eye with which we are viewed! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Let him bare his arm and transfix me with lightning--this is also one of his attributes--and the old man laughed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was one of the most exasperating attributes of Bounderby, that he not only sang his own praises but stimulated other men to sing them. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• These epithets--these attributes I put from me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Such a character may have had this origin, and indeed Livy attributes the Licinian laws to a feminine jealousy of a similar kind. Plato. The Republic.
• In the carriage, on the way down Fifth Avenue, they talked pointedly of Mrs. Mingott, of her age, her spirit, and all her wonderful attributes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He throws a veil of mystery over the origin of the decline, which he attributes to ignorance of the law of population. Plato. The Republic.
• She saw that she had dressed her idol with attributes of her own making. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• While a party are engaged with their whist or their gossip, a female figure appears in the midst of them with all the attributes of the supernatural. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When relative terms have no attributes, their correlatives have no attributes; when they have attributes, their correlatives also have them. Plato. The Republic.
• There are men who ascribe to 'woman,' in general, such attributes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is one of the greatest attributes of invention to foresee and meet its own problems in exactly the same way. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One great mathematician, Poincaré, attributes his discoveries to intuition. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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