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Meanings of fable in English
Short fictional story that anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson.
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Usage of fable in English
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And yet this new fable had one important element its predecessors lacked.
2
The late professor used the fable to illustrate the contingency of history.
3
The fable in Greece originated in an intentional travesty of human affairs.
4
The history of the VIth dynasty loses itself in legend and fable.
5
It was the old fable again of the bee and the bee-moth.
6
He then told us the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise.
7
There is the fable of Hercules and the wagoner to confirm it.
8
I suppose because he compared you to a nymph in the fable.
9
A child, says the fable, having often amused himself by crying Help!
10
The fable in Ovid of Arachne and Pallas, is to this purpose.
11
The fable of the bundle of sticks is good for all time.
12
The pleasant habit of existence, the sweet fable of Life and Love.
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The fable is indeed one of the worst that ever was constructed.
14
The fable about animals is probably the oldest form of story known.
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They were unquestionably the offspring of an age of fable and superstition.
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We admire the heroes of Grecian history and even of Grecian fable.
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United Kingdom
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