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This is almost surely apocryphal because anyone who knew Rand's work would know how much she disliked religion in almost any form.

An empty cupboard is no better than an empty cup, she said in an apocryphal aside.

His hopes rested, in part, on an article he read somewhere, which very well might be apocryphal but nevertheless allowed him to dream.

Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of apocryphal stories believed by their tellers to be true.

It sounds like an apocryphal story, but Nigel Woodward, London-based director of financial services at Intel, insists it is true.

One apocryphal tale centred on Indian workers who had been given the job of keying the results of the latest British census into a database.

When he was finally revealed to be a large sluglike creature in Return of the Jedi, Marvel's Jabba was proven apocryphal.

There is no record of the context of this admonition, and the quotation itself may be accurate or even apocryphal.

The myth of the three trees, as it appears in certain apocryphal gospels and apocalypses, is merely a doublet of the myth of the three ages.

One (possibly apocryphal) tale tells of reindeer dying because they were unable to breathe, so thick were the clouds of insects.

So I started to collect apocryphal writings once considered to be scripture.

Biographers attempting to account for this period have reported many apocryphal stories.

Apocryphal information abounds, blurring the boundary between truth and rumor.

Most of the stories about his private life are probably apocryphal.

In existence are hundreds of apocryphal books representing all three categories.

The story is apocryphal, but it captures the tough love expected from central bankers as lenders of last resort.

The Einstein quotation is almost certainly apocryphal, but the sentiment has an element of truth.

I was once told a story about Mr Gates that may be apocryphal, but still seemed to capture the man's outlook.

Although the part about Andrew Jackson is almost certainly apocryphal .

In the apocryphal Book of Tobit he appears in human disguise and conquers the demon Asmodeus.

The apocryphal answer is: "Indeed, m'lud, in Barnsley they speak of little else. "

His story, they now realized, was completely apocryphal.

There are only stories and legends, most of them apocryphal, passed down through the ages.

It remains difficult to gather statistics even on modern porn usage in China though some idea can be gleaned from apocryphal sources.

This ExcerptaRiccardi manuscript has been datedaround 1580, and therefore the anecdote is probably apocryphal.

The Old Testament Apocryphal Literature