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Short fictional story that anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson.

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A short moral story (often with animal characters)

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A deliberately false or improbable account.

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A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.

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Uso de fable en inglés
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And yet this new fable had one important element its predecessors lacked.
The Postman
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The late professor used the fable to illustrate the contingency of history.
Death of a Red Heroine
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The fable in Greece originated in an intentional travesty of human affairs.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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The history of the VIth dynasty loses itself in legend and fable.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
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It was the old fable again of the bee and the bee-moth.
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
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He then told us the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals / In Two Volumes, V...
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There is the fable of Hercules and the wagoner to confirm it.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
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I suppose because he compared you to a nymph in the fable.
Monsieur de Camors — Volume 1
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A child, says the fable, having often amused himself by crying Help!
Camille
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The fable in Ovid of Arachne and Pallas, is to this purpose.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 / Historical...
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The fable of the bundle of sticks is good for all time.
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
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The pleasant habit of existence, the sweet fable of Life and Love.
The Measure of a Man
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The fable is indeed one of the worst that ever was constructed.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
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The fable about animals is probably the oldest form of story known.
The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder tales
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They were unquestionably the offspring of an age of fable and superstition.
The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic
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We admire the heroes of Grecian history and even of Grecian fable.
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
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