ascribe
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Ascribe this simile to a father's heart, and you will understand the blow that fell on Peyrade; the tears started to his eyes.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
Ascribe, a-skrīb′, v.t. to attribute, impute, or assign.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Ascribe this laxity of style to the historian's fidelity to his sources of information.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Ascribe it to my weakness and the dread I feel lest he——" "The guilty man," I interposed, "is not a subject for sympathy.
From One of My Sons by Green, Anna Katharine
Ascribe ye praise to the god, the Aged One, from whom I have come into being.
From Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
Vocabulary lists containing ascribe
The Write Stuff: Scrib, Script
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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Jane Eyre
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