Attributed

Examples

• No doubt he attributed it for the time to the presumption of a graduate of West Point over a volunteer pure and simple. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The writings that have been attributed to Geber show the advances that chemistry made through t he experiments of the Arabs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The pickerel doubtless attributed to the roach all this shaking, the rebuff which he had received. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It would be very unkind of you to suppose that I ever attributed any meanness to you, she began. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Medicated pads are quite popular with many who have tried them, and a multitude of remarkable cures are attributed to their use. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The Kimberlite of the Jagersfontein mine is free from pyrites, and to that is attributed the remarkable brilliancy and purity of color for which the diamonds of this mine are celebrated. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I mention it now, only as a corroboration (though I hope it may be needless) of my being free from the sordid design attributed to me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Some, perhaps a great, effect may be attributed to the increased use or disuse of parts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This he attributed, after much reflection, to his musical genius not having been scientifically developed in his youth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There were those among the unregenerated who attributed the unceasing head-winds to our distressing choir-music. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Not to any man I knew could the machination, for a moment, be attributed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The cause is usually attributed to drinking, but gluttony, tight lacing, nasal catarrh, chronic enlargement of the tonsils, exposure to strong sunlight, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Something, but how much we do not know, may be attributed to the definite action of the conditions of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This is generally, but erroneously attributed to vitiated instincts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Then, if there be any good which all artists have in common, that is to be attributed to something of which they all have the common use? Plato. The Republic.
• Anger with him, however, is a good deal like the story attributed to Napoleon: Sire, how is it that your judgment is not affected by your great rage? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Let not these aspirations be attributed to vanity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This he attributed to the increased perspiration and consequent evaporation produced by the heat. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This difference is to be attributed to the influence of general rules. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The existence of such persons is to be attributed to want of education, ill-training, and an evil constitution of the State? Plato. The Republic.
• The general rule is attributed to our judgment; as being more extensive and constant. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I thought this curious--but I attributed it mainly to some clumsiness on the Superintendent's part which might have offended the young lady. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They attributed these evils to the limitations imposed upon the free powers of man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Betteredge attributed your sleeplessness to something. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The disastrous result of this experiment did not discourage Edison at all, as he attributed failure to the lad rather than to the motive power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To Americans also must be attributed an impatience of theory as theory, and a predomi nant interest in the applications of science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This may be attributed partly to the principle of correlated growth, and partly to so-called spontaneous variation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Galton attributed the difference to the scientist's habits of highly generalized and abstract thought, especially when the steps of reasoning are carried on by words [employed] as symbols. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And now remember the character which we attributed to the democratic man. Plato. The Republic.

Editor: Moll