apocryphal in A Sentence

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This quote has often been repeated, but is in fact Apocryphal.

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Whether or not the story is Apocryphal, there were real reasons for antipathy.

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This is the source of Ford's Apocryphal remark,"any color as long as it's black.

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There are a number of stories(perhaps Apocryphal) surrounding Lee that are still repeated in Hong Kong culture.

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You have considered the book of Maccabees, which deals with prayers for the dead, to be Apocryphal.”.

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As much as people might want to believe that Anne Boleyn tried to speak after being decapitated, the story is probably Apocryphal.

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Voltaire never actually said that- the proverbial line was coined by an early 20th century biographer- but the spirit of his Apocryphal remark is exactly right.

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The French Encyclopædia Universalis states:“ The[ Apocryphal] Apocalypse of Peter( 2nd century C. E.) was the first Christian work to describe the punishment and tortures of sinners in hell.”.

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In his famous(though possibly Apocryphal) experiment dropping balls from the Tower of Pisa, and later with careful measurements of balls rolling down inclines, Galileo showed that gravitational acceleration is the same for all objects.

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In his famous(though probably Apocryphal) experiment dropping balls from the Tower of Pisa, and later with careful measurements of balls rolling down inclines, Galileo showed that gravitation accelerates all objects at the same rate.

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As the Straight Dope recounted- a story which is likely Apocryphal, but regardless, demonstrative-“during World War II some refugees broke into an abandoned house and found a quantity of old sprouted potatoes in the basement.

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This Apocryphal tale, at the very least, shows the apparent compelling logic in the argument that when an activity is so engrossing it has the capacity to stop people engaging in other types of activity such as crime.

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Eusebius, a Roman historian and a scholar of the biblical canon, quoted early Apocryphal accounts and stated that Pilate suffered a misfortune in the reign of Caligula(A.D. 37- 41), was exiled to Gaul, and eventually committed suicide there in Vienne.

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An Apocryphal story recounts that the 12th century Hoysala king Veera Ballala II, while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hungry, he came across a poor old woman who served him boiled beans.

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But in his book The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Alfred Edersheim rebuts this, saying:“ It may safely be asserted, that no Apocryphal or legendary narrative of such a( legendary) event would have been characterised by such scantiness, or rather absence, of details.

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He may have been dropped for attending too few classes, been suspended for"conduct code violations", or"for breaking a window," or according to a more concrete but possibly Apocryphal account, because he threw"a beer bottle into the window of Professor Woodrow Wilson," future president of the United States.

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He may have been dropped for attending too few classes, been suspended for“conduct code violations,” or“for breaking a window”, or according to a more concrete but possibly Apocryphal account, because he threw“a beer bottle into the window of Professor Woodrow Wilson“, the future president of the United States.

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Accounts vary as to why he left: he may have been dropped for attending too few classes, been suspended for"conduct code violations," or"for breaking a window", or according to a more concrete but possibly Apocryphal account, because he threw"a beer bottle into the window of Professor Woodrow Wilson", the future president of the United States.

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