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Had his Senate speech attacked coal miners, someone would surely have imputed skullduggery to union labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: Understanding you have imputed cowardice to my friend William Singsmall, Esquire, I call on you either to retract, or refer me to a friend.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

The answer to this lies in the second of the errors which I have imputed to Lord Carlisle.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas

Yet I shall still carry it out in some degree, inasmuch as I hope that my defence will convict you of more real impostures which you have imputed to me.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

You would have imputed to him on the spot the lively possession of a new idea, the sustaining sense of a message important enough to justify his irruption.

From The Outcry by James, Henry