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  • But he wasn't called anything because this is an apocryphal story, which means that it is a lie, too.†  (source)
  • Actually, I think I prefer that it be apocryphal, since made-up anecdotes have their own kind of truth.†  (source)
  • In one possibly apocryphal story, doctors once trained a homeless man to do routine lab tests because there was no one else available.†  (source)
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  • I hear you worked your way through medical school at a truck stop, or some such apocryphal nonsense.†  (source)
  • According to one possibly apocryphal account, Washington and the others had left their horses and were proceeding on foot when suddenly two mounted British officers coming at a gallop sent them "running and scampering for life."†  (source)
  • But then you felt everything Hoagland said was apocryphal, always questionable.†  (source)
  • A comparable vision is described in the apocryphal Gospel of Eve.†  (source)
  • Fifty times had the mention of Barney Cahoon, the town drayman, like a nickel in a slot produced from Kennicott the apocryphal story of Barney's directing a minister, "Come down to the depot and get your case of religious books—they're leaking!"†  (source)
  • Cowper's Apocryphal Gospels.†  (source)
  • During the last year the old man had taken to studying the Apocryphal Gospels, and constantly talked over his impressions with his young friend.†  (source)
  • [44] [44] At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, tutu, pointed hat†  (source)
  • The marriage was to make no change in their place of residence; they had been able to extend it, by taking to themselves the upper rooms formerly belonging to the apocryphal invisible lodger, and they desired nothing more.†  (source)
  • Sam, I think this rather apocryphal,—this miracle.†  (source)
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