554 collocations for attributing

She could also write, "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

Now will you rise again andsquirmbecause I attribute to Eve all power over Adam?

A rough and ready code of life attributes certain grossly characteristic qualities of mind and body to each sex.

A girl of smaller soul might have misunderstood him, and attributed to him some other motive.

Both Baumer and Battifol in their histories of the Breviary attribute the origin of this Hour to St. Benedict (480-543).

The daughters knew his closeness in trade, and attributed to it his failure to negotiate for the Old Charlie buildings,so to call them.

To the famous anguinum they attributed high virtues.

These high-strained pretenders to godliness, who deny the power of the sinner to help himself, take good care always to attribute his 'saving change' to the blessed effect of some sermon preached by some one or other of 'their' Evangelical fraternity.

"Lord Herbert died at the age of fifty-one, broken down by work so entirely that his medical attendants hardly knew to what to attribute his death."

By reason of this accident he sent his wife word that she should procure the treasure which he had concealedfor to the hiding of the treasure he attributed his misfortune.

Some attribute to Apollo the honour of conquering them.

Proceeding to deeper and less recognized causes, some would attribute this spirit of lawlessness to the rampant individualism, which began in the eighteenth century, and which has steadily and naturally grown with the advance of democratic institutions.

Both of them in the end attributed the disaster to practically the same cause, the speed mania which has overtaken the nations, the heedlessness of man's over-confidence which takes risks so many times successfully that it grows to forget that risks exist.

But he does not reveal the operating causehis loss of faith in women, which has taken the whole poetic element out of heaven, earth, and humanity: he would have his uncle's spies attribute his condition to mere melancholy.

Edward became king (attribute complement).

Nowadays the influence of race on the destinies of peoples and persons is much discussed in sociology, and there are one-sided schools that pretend to solve the problems of history and society by means of that racial influence alone, to which they attribute an absolute importance.

The virtue of chastity was the one law, and its observances and violations were studied from every point of view, and its numberless permissible and forbidden limitations expatiated upon to such a degree, that he who escaped them altogether could well attribute the result to the interposition of some supernatural power, the protection of some celestial guardian.

Add the vivid imagination and the genuine love for his fellow-men, to which Lord Morley told us Maine attributed Rousseau's ineffaceable influence on history, and we are shown some of the qualities and reasons that now and again make words burn with that effulgence, and give even to a book the power of a deed.

Some physicians attribute the cause of dreams to vapours and humours, and the affections and cares of persons predominant when awake; for, say they, by reason of the abundance of vapours, which are exhaled in consequence of immoderate feeding, the brain is so stuffed by it, that monsters and strange chimera are formed, of which the most inordinate eaters and drinkers furnish us with sufficient instances.

To these causes I attribute almost all their diseases.

Do not attribute this fact to several pretended electoral manoeuvres.

It is customary to attribute the designs to Mulready and the engraving to William Blake.

Does not the unlettered Highlander say all that I want to say, when he attributes to his dog and his horse, on the strength of these very manifestations of fear, the capacity of seeing ghosts and fairies before he can see them himself?

The very element of uncertainty lends excitement to the game, and they readily attribute all sorts of perfections to the imaginary stranger who is to be the partner of their lives.

The former was confident that even if Woman appeared on the floor of the House the SPEAKER-ELECT'S "consummate tact" would be equal to coping with her artfullest endeavours to get round the rules of procedure; while the latter attributed his priceless gift of humour to "Scottish ancestry on the mother's side.

554 collocations for  attributing