So far as he could see, the murderer could have had no reason for covering up the crime, which in the absence of contrary proof would have been Imputed to the Gray Phantom.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
The effort to fasten upon a particular person the actual responsibility for each public act of the Crown by compelling some officer to put his approval of it on record, has been superseded by the general principle that the responsibility must always be Imputed to a minister.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
What did it matter if dishonorable conduct, if every deadly sin, were Imputed to him out here so long as he "made good" in the end with the work of his brain, the work which had led him to Africa and across the Atlantic?
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens