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  • Maibee it wuz jus a random sneez an I attri… atry… blaimed it on teh flowrz.

    Why don’t you come over here - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • One element these imports have in common would be welcome in more American and British crime fiction: brevity, which not coincidentally was a key attri-bute of the foreign writer most successful in the U.S. market, Georges Simenon.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2002

  • One element these imports have in common would be welcome in more American and British crime fiction: brevity, which not coincidentally was a key attri-bute of the foreign writer most successful in the U.S. market, Georges Simenon.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2002

  • Vidal got plenty of opportunities; even when there weren't any Unseleighe Court volunteers to act as technicians, he could control the camera magically even when he was being filmed by it, and his incredible-attri-butes'made him a natural for the master character.

    The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Spinoza made extension and thought no longer two substances but two attri - butes of the one substance God.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SIMONE P 1968

  • The sources of Western anti-Semitism are far from being wholly religious, but a theological concept such as that of deicide has played a significant role in investing with respectability and legitimacy the sociological fury of conformity, that is to say, the normative value attri - buted to the characteristics of the statistical majority.

    RELIGIOUS TOLERATION ELISABETH LABROUSSE 1968

  • By divinizing the material principle, Bruno prepares for Spinoza's attri - bution of infinite extension to God, as well as for a religious interpretation of the scientist's study of the universe.

    IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968

  • The great ontological poem of Parmenides clearly outlines a certain feature of completeness, as an attri - bute of something that is, ambivalently, an ontological absolute and a cosmological universe.

    INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • Timaeus, there is an initial phase of a “primordial chaos,” in which there is no ready-made space as yet, but only a space in the making, and the structure of this space unfolds not by itself but conjointly with the structure of matter, energy, and other physical attri - butes.

    SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • He performs many feats formerly attri - buted to earlier magicians, especially during a stay at the court of the emperor Charles V: he conjures up

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968

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