Phrases with «to be apocryphal»

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Sentences with «to be apocryphal»

  • There's an apocryphal story about turn - of - the - century theater queen Sarah Bernhardt reading the phone book so emotionally that the audience was left weeping. (rollingstone.com)
  • There is an apocryphal story told about some of the followers of Rene Descartes, who, on the banks of the Seine River in Paris, would nail dogs to wooden boards, cut them open, and watch them bark and writhe. (religion-online.org)
  • This Jewish Flesh Wyschogrod is taken with the story, which may or may not be apocryphal, that when Pope John XXIII saw the pictures of bulldozers pushing Jewish corpses into mass graves at the newly liberated Nazi murder camps, he exclaimed: «There is the body of Christ.» (firstthings.com)
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