FABLE


Meaning of FABLE in English

noun

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monsters of fable and legend

My favorite is the fable of the race between the tortoise and the hare.

The best-known of Aesop's fables is "The Tortoise and the Hare'.

The life of Howard Hughes cannot fail to remind us of the fable of Midas.

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And Notes from Underground is precisely such a fable of disembodied consciousness.

In several fables the kelpie appears as a handsome young prince, who lures maidens to a watery fate worse than death.

The result is a dark, intoxicating fable about the limits of imagination and the power of memory.

This is just a fable to frighten the children with a bit of free preaching thrown in.

You made it a kind of fable .

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