The ancient fable of the Nessus' shirt was realized for him.

The ancient fable of the sirens occurred to him.

The figure might have been some beautiful youth of ancient fable,-Hylasor Narcissus, Paris or Endymion.

He even gives the ancient fable of the Amazons, whom he represents as an existing female nation.

The trustees have been hitherto rather those flies on the wheel of which we read in ancient fable.

Yet, whatever hope may persuade, or reason evince, experience can boast of very few additions to ancient fable.

Speckled birds were hopping by the sides of the road; it was the magpie, the bird of ancient fable.

The breaking of the egg was also introduced, from which sprang Castor and Pollux, according to the ancient fable.

To Rhianna her own tale sounded like something from an ancient fable, not the life that she had lived.

Venus, as in the ancient fable, was again rising above the dark and tempestuous waves which had so long covered her beauty.

There is an ancient fable of Æsop about the Dog and the Wolf which portrays this sentiment in a very quaint and delightful manner.

So called because, as in ancient fable the god Atlas supported the globe on his shoulders, so in the body this bone bears the head.

According to the ancient fables of the Indies, their original is from heaven.

Unbelief is the dragon of the ancient fables.

I love to expound ancient fables, and I think no exposition can be more natural than this.

In these new exhibitions of ancient fables, the marvellous has been studiously rejected as alien to our belief.