Sentences with phrase «referencing apocryphal»
«It's like King Canute trying to tell the tide not to come in,» McIlwain said, referencing an apocryphal legend associated with a Danish king.»
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When you see crypto people tell each other to hodl or make hodl jokes, they're referencing this apocryphal posting to the Bitcoin Forum way back in December 2013:
Narayen's turn of phrase is hardly original — since at least the 1990s, corporate bosses have been referencing apocryphal tales of military commanders in hostile territory motivating their troops to conquer or be killed by destroying their ride home.
Not exact matches
48 Epistola apostolorum, 41, M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford, 1924), 500; with reference to the Greek text behind the Coptic and Ethiopic, C. Schmidt, Texte und Untersuchungen, 43, 132 f.
Houghton Mifflin's splendidly browsable new reference book, Women in Scripture, is so exhaustive even its sub - title is lengthy: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament.