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  • Maduna's reference to a Constitutional Court finding was spurious,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • That Eusebius recurred to this medium of information, and that he had examined with attention this species of proof, is shown, first, by a passage in the very chapter we are quoting, in which, speaking of the books which he calls spurious,

    Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774

  • My ultimate destination, you must know, "she said, with a lightness which, I think, on the face of it was spurious,

    The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

  • In fact Pseudo-Cæsarius, so far from “bearing witness to the fact” that the concluding verses of S. Mark’s Gospel are spurious,

    The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark John William Burgon 1850

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