The question is what to believe, for much that we have heard about her is almost certainly apocryphal. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The original and proper sense of the term apocryphal as applied to the pretended sacred books was early obscured. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The term apocryphal in connection with special Gospels must be understood as bearing no more unfavourable an import than. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
And, of course, to label any regionor the literary representation of a regionas legitimate or apocryphal, is best left to the polemicists. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Mark Spragg about An Unfinished Life] Reference
If someone paraphrases those thoughts, and improperly puts quote marks around the paraphrase, then maybe apocryphal is not quite the right word for that impropriety. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force”] Reference
Alright, so you're playing cleverly with the relationship between "apocryphal" and "canon", but let's look at this more closely. From Wordnik.com. [On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight] Reference
Even if that's kind of apocryphal, it still makes you think.). From Wordnik.com. [anne-jumps Diary Entry] Reference
A story, perhaps apocryphal, circulated for awhile. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Weller: Shakespeare: Don't Like the News, Then Kill the Messenger] Reference
The sled, wax and antifreeze warnings are apocryphal. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils Of Brushing] Reference
His narration must be hence considered as apocryphal. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Tobit and Tobias, taken from the apocryphal book of Tobit. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
You're not quite sure which was true and which were apocryphal. From Wordnik.com. ['True Love' Revives Singer Roky Erickson] Reference
THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS is one of the apocryphal books of the New. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Rahmán bin Abi Sásáta -- is undoubtedly apocryphal, Wákidi and. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
The reader has probably heard of the apocryphal twelfth commandment. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Not much is known of Finbar, and that little is probably apocryphal. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
This story may be apocryphal, but it is delightfully true to character. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
The tradition quoted by Sir W. Muir in this page is apocryphal and technically. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Some say the story is apocryphal, but even uncorroborated tales are often instructive. From Wordnik.com. [Seth Shostak: Where Are the Aliens? Fermi Paradox Redux] Reference
A decade after Reagan, New Jersey's voters aren't buying government by apocryphal anecdote. From Wordnik.com. [Not The Year Of The Women] Reference
Sample (possibly apocryphal) quote from the original J.P. Morgan: "I owe the public nothing.". From Wordnik.com. [No One Wants to Hug a Banker] Reference
Solomon, by the apocryphal writers, and by the ancient Bramins, are the sentiments of this day. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Some stories, possibly apocryphal, have it that he read all of Goethe in German at the age of 14. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From Mythology] Reference
The King was said to have transmitted to him a hundred pound note; but even this is unluckily apocryphal. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
An apocryphal tale goes that it took OHII (Oscar Hammerstein II) a week to write the first line of Oklahoma!. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: Let the N.E.A. Lead Them] Reference
Land brought back to Europe thousands of apocryphal relics, in the purchase of which they had expended all their store. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The paradox is we can hardly see Rembrandt anymore, through all the layers of purple prose, apocryphal stories and debunking. From Wordnik.com. [Real Deal Rembrandt] Reference
The apocryphal story finds our hero on stage between songs, intriguing his audience by repeatedly clapping his hands together. From Wordnik.com. [Bono: the celebrity who just keeps giving] Reference
The flourishing statement which he gives in his memoirs of King James's reception, may, however, be treated as wholly apocryphal. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
His family, by which is meant Sofia and her cousin, was not enslaved, and there is no tradition, genuine or apocryphal, to corroborate it. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Many, drawn by tradition from the obscurity of the past, have lost, if they ever possessed, any claim to be regarded except as apocryphal. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
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