Lord Brassey is certainly right in Attributing the industrial superiority of Great Britain as much to the administrative skill and economy of her employers as to the efficiency of her labourers.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
I hardly think that any critic can have so keen a sense of the shortcomings in my works as that I groan under in the course of writing them, and I cannot imagine any edification coming to an author from a sort of reviewing which consists in Attributing to him or her unexpressed opinions, and in imagining circumstances which may be alleged as petty private motives for the treatment of subjects which ought to be of general human interest....
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
And yet I cannot understand, my poor uncle's outbreak, except by Attributing it to delirium.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice