Examples of fable

• The first volume contained mostly stories and fables about animals, the scientific conversations were in the third volume, and the moral tales in the fourth.

• No longer a fable of antique curiosity, the riddle expressed the urgent need for reform.

• The doubling of props was further matched by the characters' frequent transitions between the worlds of domesticity and fable.

• Stars used to be grouped by fable and narrative while later they were grouped by spectral class.

• The performative impact of fables derives from the fact that until recently they were part of the school child's curriculum and were learned by rote.

• And he gave us no thanks for the favors and the many thoughts, because, full of himself, he hawked a fable.

• He rather considers the fable as a sort of moral example.

• What unifies the action of the fable so that it forms a whole is the moral sentence it offers to intuition.