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Перевод: apocryphal speek apocryphal


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Тезаурус:

  1. McMurdo likes to joke about an apocryphal exchange of letters with the Celtic chairman Jack McGinn, who once wrote to McMurdo telling him he was "persona non grata" at the club.
  2. According to legend, Rough told the guards to put their guns away shouting the apocryphal line "Don't shoot I'm the goalkeeper."
  3. Some are true, some are false, most have been embroidered in the interests of enjoyment and several have been told so often they are part of the apocryphal armada of football.
  4. According to an apocryphal story he was stopped in the foyer and asked what advice he would give to an eager undergraduate embarking on a career.
  5. The orthodox gave the latter term a pejorative sense; the apocryphal texts were correctly seen as an attempt to replace the books accepted by the mainstream communities and included in their church lectionary as authentic representatives of the apostolic tradition of faith.
  6. To the Gnostics it was a commendation to label a text "secret" or "apocryphal".
  7. The other story - perhaps apocryphal - was supposed to explain why he would never allow us women to assist at operations.
  8. Many are apocryphal, although where a thatcher makes use of straw which contains a few ears of grain, rats may be a problem.
  9. He told a friend of a dream he had had, "a terrible nightmare" - perhaps apocryphal too, but there are no Secret Service logs of dreams - in which America's support of the contras had failed.
  10. James's comment, when the news of her birth was brought to him, that "it cam wi' a lass and it will gang wi' a lass" (a reference to the way in which the house of Stewart had come to the throne, through the marriage of Walter the Steward to Robert Bruce's daughter Marjorie) may be apocryphal and was, as it turned out, inaccurate; the "lass" who was to bring Stewart rule to an end was not Queen Mary, but Queen Anne in 1714.
  11. "I have always assumed it to be apocryphal."
  12. At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser's The Body is the Hero .
  13. But in the mid-second century the apocryphal "Acts of John" presented St John as a lifelong virgin.

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