They ascribe great powers to it, but shrink from cutting it off in the usual manner.

I could at first glance ascribe great activity, but only moderate strength to his slender, wiry figure.

Our modern medical writers ascribe great virtues to tobacco-water, injected into the womb by means of a clyster.

Again, this type of judgment forbids anyone who uses it to ascribe great popular movements (great massacres, great turmoils, and so forth) to craft.

But experience is often fallacious in ascribing great effects to trifling circumstances.

There would seem to be ample ground for ascribing great causative importance to excessive irritation of the brain plasma itself.