| Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County. |
| It is said, perhaps apocryphally, that he learned Finnish on a flight to Helsinki. |
| In 1604 he demonstrated that unequal weights drop with equal velocity, an observation apocryphally said to be based on the dropping of weights from the leaning Tower of Pisa. |
| In Tampa, known — apparently apocryphally — as the strip club capital of the nation and where the Republican convention begins Aug. 27, competition for conventioneers is fierce. |
| Apocryphally, local screening responses are widely different. |
| Apocryphally, natives of the Arctic have hundreds of words for different sorts of snow. |
