Aesop's fables are good examples of apologues. From LearnThat.org. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Apologue]
Bramble forms the subject of the oldest known apologue. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
In this same apologue we have doubtless a duplicate, the original or. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Conformably with the above apologue, a king had a business of importance in hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
More closely connected, however, is an apologue incorporated in a Buddhistic birth-story, the. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
How does this most ancient apologue apply to the subject in hand? — the Dinner-giving Snob. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
At the time this apologue amused me; in the light of later events it assumed a tragic significance. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
Nay, the Aesopian apologue even saith that certain petty country gents of the lower class, who had sold. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Fielding's arguments are incontestable; but his apologue may have found even more favour in the age of wit. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
Alesius waited to hear from his host the moral or application of the apologue, but this was not given by him. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
In the course of his argument he related the famous apologue which Shakespeare has so admirably used in his first Roman play. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
We celebrate a national fable, an apologue we tell ourselves periodically to keep the myth of representative government alive. From Wordnik.com. [Free Speech Becoming Too Expensive] Reference
Great name, second only to Dickens; he is not a story-teller, but an eastern Cadi administering justice in the form of apologue. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
This idea is happily embodied in the closing apologue, designed to supplement one of Laurentius Valla, a writer of the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
By way of an apologue for the aged, when they feel more than usually tempted to offer their advice, let me recommend the following little tale. From Wordnik.com. [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference
Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
See also the apologue of 'Walter Wise,' who becomes. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
It is an apologue that I read in -- You do not read. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob] Reference
Rabba explained Rabbi Meir's conduct by an apologue. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4] Reference
'I shall send that apologue straight to Ormersfield.'. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference
How does this most ancient apologue apply to the subject in hand?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
The apologue of the night before was neither forgotten nor forgiven. From Wordnik.com. [The Justice of the King] Reference
For a popular account of the whole philosophy of the apologue consult. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
Theism might almost retort the apologue of the specter of the Brocken. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
The anecdote was of the character of an apologue, and pertained to game. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
"Well, what next?" said La Fontaine, more interested in the apologue than in the moral. From Wordnik.com. [Louise de la Valliere] Reference
Nos.cliii. and cliv. soliloquise on an ancient Greek apologue on the force of Cupid's fire. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
But here is an apologue: The peach, from blossom to maturity, is the most attractive of fruits. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
I had no answer for the apologue -- not even for the self-condemnatory tone in which he told it. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference
Whitmonby was favoured with an anecdote, to be read as an apologue by the light of subsequent events. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
The poet Nizami in the following apologue seems to have caught no little of the spirit of the Gospel. From Wordnik.com. [Mystics and Saints of Islam] Reference
Nathan's apologue, so tenderly beautiful, takes the poet-king on the most susceptible side of his character. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
But the "armed Greeks" of More's apologue found a yet wider field in the reform of the higher education of the country. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference
This thesis is illustrated with an extraordinary wealth of imagery and apologue throughout the six books composing the work. From Wordnik.com. [Mystics and Saints of Islam] Reference
The teachers of the Haggada allow no opportunity, sad or merry, to pass without utilizing it in the guise of an apologue or parable. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Literature and Other Essays] Reference
The apologue, I may say in passing, is not Mr. Spencer's; it is by the author of the "Vestiges," and will be found on page 161 of the. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
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