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Unfortunately, popular inaccuracy has imputed her errors to the gentle Eleanor of Castile, her daughter-in-law, and thus the ballad calls her wife to Edward I., instead of Henry III.

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

"My father," replied Gilbert, "has imputed to His Holiness a want of firmness."

From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by Miles, George Henry

There is a further security against the wanton and bootless mischief which fear or design has imputed to the Bank of the United States.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

Tradition, however, has imputed to him a brutal ferocity beyond belief.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

They acknowledge, that if any proof can be produced of the crimes which calumny has imputed to them, they are worthy of the most severe punishment.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart