Meanings of mere fable in English

A mere fable brought them open-eared to all the orator would say.

Still the bridge was believed to be a mere fable, a chimaera.

It is extremely interesting, although the whole is a mere fable.

This calculation is a mere fable, as I can easily prove.

Well, they don't; so why worry your head, dear, over a mere fable?

It mast be set down as mere fable.]

I consider, generally speaking, all that has been said on the subject a mere fable, a blind and extravagant error.

The Jewish tradition represents that Jonathan wrote the paraphrase of the prophets from the mouth of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi; a mere fable.

This curious fact was long considered to be a mere fable, but it has now been verified, and belongs to the natural history of India.

They were mere fables, good for empty heads with no proper conception of life.

Nor is there anything to surprise us in this mixture of the authentic Gospels and mere fables.

That, when Our revelations are recited unto him, he saith: Mere fables of the men of old.

Kill a man, and then see if what we hear of ghosts and spirits are mere fables.

These, I assure you, are mere fables.

The Kings of Egypt and Assyria, who were contemporaries of Solomon, are forgotten, and their histories mere fables.

Their stories are mere fables.