The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. From LearnThat.org. [C.A. Stoddard.]
While I think the book has an intriguing premise, calling it a fable is a stretch. From Wordnik.com. [Whither Jackie Paper?] Reference
Mary Shelley's use of the fable is not accidental. From Wordnik.com. [Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man] Reference
That fable is unjust, which gives the superiority to the sun over the wind. From Wordnik.com. [II.5] Reference
The underlying emotion to this well written fable is hatred and resentment. From Wordnik.com. [GONE • by Christopher P. Garlington] Reference
I've got a short book I call the fable -- he got hungry and forgot his manners. From Wordnik.com. [Damon Runyan: A Life] Reference
Log in to Reply jccbin - I think this little fable is appropriate to your comment. From Wordnik.com. [Again: they’re *angry*, not afraid. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
The word fable as here used by Dryden holds its original meaning of story or tale. From Wordnik.com. [Palamon and Arcite] Reference
"Another penetrating, emotionally lacerating antiwar fable from a master of the form.". From Wordnik.com. [A Pale Horse by Charles Todd: Book summary] Reference
The fable is said to have arisen from a misinterpretation of the text, "They fell asleep in the Lord.". From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference
Beast-fable is a recognizable form of Satire: it is not easy to recognize the genre of Nineteen Eighty-Four. From Wordnik.com. [Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses] Reference
The fable is a tale rather than a true short-story. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
So let's recall the fable of Little Red Riding Hood. From Wordnik.com. [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference
Gustavus recalls the fable of the monkey and the cat. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
A fable is a arrygory; it's a story that means something. From Wordnik.com. [Little Men] Reference
The fable is a parable of the experience of many a lost human soul. From Wordnik.com. [Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives] Reference
But the true moral of the fable was the need for eternal vigilance. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
At the end of the fable is the warning the GOP should heed between now and. From Wordnik.com. [Home/News] Reference
Madame can hardly have meant the "milk-pot" fable, which is easily understood. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference
That's why it's called a fable -- I didn't want to take anything from anybody. From Wordnik.com. ['Gypsy' Director Arthur Laurents] Reference
86 The fable is from Al – Kazwini and Ibn Al – Wardi who place the serpent. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Language, especially the language of fable, is vital to the storyteller’s craft. From Wordnik.com. [Campfire Writing: Why Stories are the Writer’s Elemental Tool | Write to Done] Reference
The fable is the same whichever way it may be related, and the purport of it is likewise the same. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)] Reference
He fays, '1 call a fable Epifodic when the in - follow each other without probability or necefSty. From Wordnik.com. [The Monthly Review] Reference
I really liked this — it has the quality of a fable, which is tricky to get, and has a lovely ending!. From Wordnik.com. [BURIAL OF THE BELLS • by Sarah Hilary] Reference
The protagonist of the fable is a bored shepherd boy who entertained himself by calling out “wolf”. From Wordnik.com. [Survivor Season 8: the Hockey Team – the Mann Overboard Episode « Climate Audit] Reference
Which mysticall fable Eustathius vnfolding, sayth: that by wounding in the hele, is meant lustfull loue. From Wordnik.com. [Shepheardes Calendar] Reference
The tribute sent by the animals to King Alexander is a fable, which is not the better for being ancient. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
"All right," said the Sage, "this is a lot of birds 'tales all tied up together, and is called a fable ----". From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
Pained and saddened, Upton Sinclair recalled the fable of the mountain in labor and a little mouse coming forth. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood Hits, FDR Ignores, Upton Sinclair] Reference
For the episodes and digressions in a fable are the same that household stuff and other furniture are in a house. From Wordnik.com. [Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems] Reference
This particular ARC didn't contain the word "fable". From Wordnik.com. [Whither Jackie Paper?] Reference
“since the most ancient times” the fable has been the means. From Wordnik.com. [18th Century German Aesthetics] Reference
The two women never showered together, says Blair, dismissing the idea as "fable". From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair admits error of judgment over Carole Caplin] Reference
Tim Gautreaux's "Idols" is a kind of fable set in Mississippi that pays homage to Flannery O'Conner. From Wordnik.com. ['Best of South': New Book Marks 25th Anniversary Of Collection Series] Reference
We give, first, the brief fable which is said to have been the prime favorite of the author himself. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
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