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Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited to the Control Council, but simply a purchasing mission with passports visaed by the Soviet occupation authorities.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is built round an outer and an inner courtyard and could house a thousand, rather than the hundred with which its owner had accredited it.

From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Barr, Robert

"I deem it prudent to close one's eyes against the orders which English mercantile vessels have received to quit Russian ports," said General Savary, whom Napoleon had accredited to the Emperor Alexander.

From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by Guizot, M. (François)

On Landsborough's arrival in Melbourne, he found that rumour had accredited him with being more interested in looking for available pastoral country than in hunting for Burke and Wills.

From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest

Fancy seemed uneasy under the infliction of this household moralizing, which might tend to damage the airy-fairy nature that Dick, as maiden shrewdness told her, had accredited her with. 

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas