Carlyle took up the note and read it. It purported to be from "a friend" to Justice Hare, informing that gentleman that his "criminal son" was likely to have arrived at West Lynne, or would arrive in the course of a day or so; and it recommended Mr. Hare to speed his departure from it, lest he should be pounced upon.英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
When I entered the Academy I saw in a paper something about colored officers being put in white regiments, etc. It purported to be a conversation with the then Secretary of War, who said there was such a law, and that it would be enforced. The then Secretary of War has since told me he was sure there was such a law, until to satisfy himself he searched the Revised Statutes, when he found he was mistaken.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
The one class of books was generally moral in tone, but trashy in its representations of real life; the other, religious in tone, but equally trashy in its presentations of pictures of what purported to be the life of boys and girls.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
The book was titled "Revised Versions," and it was strikingly modern in design and in tone. It purported to deal with several personages and numerous episodes of the Old Testament, not from the standpoint of the comparative philologist; not from the standpoint of the comparative mythologist, but from the standpoint of the modern man of common sense and average power of discrimination; and the result was that the breath of a good many people, especially clergymen, was taken from them, and that the Rev. George Holland became the best-known clergyman in England.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
"A lie," The wise man, Winston Churchill, purportedly said, "Gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." But, uh, I have a feeling that this truth will find its way quick enough.美剧 · 《Billions》
The thing about arguments before SCOTUS is they are never about what they're purported to be about.美剧 · 《Billions》
But that's sort of been thwarted, unfortunately, 'cause Courtney's purportedly falling short of shoring up four quadrant support.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》