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fable English

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fable

A fable is a short story that teaches people a moral, how they should behave.

fable

a short moral story (often with animal characters) (= legend) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events (= fabrication) a deliberately false or improbable account

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The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable.
The following passage was quoted from a well-known fable.
I regaled the devil; he gave me a fable.
Tom doesn't know the difference between a fable and a fairytale.
Every fable ends up with a moral.

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It's the great Hollywood fable.
Yeah, the old Hollywood fable.
There's a Spanish fable about two lovers that languished night and day.
But now, are we to forgo all this progress because Mr. Brady now frightens us with a fable?
From a fable you once heard in childhood.
Do you want to hear a beautiful fable?
Far in the dim past. when myth and history merged into mystery and the gods of fable and the primitive beliefs of man dwelt on ancient Mount Olympus, in antique Greece a legendary hero walked godlike upon the earth.
What you say of all of them. is fable and fiction, lies and dreams.
You string those pearls together and write a unique Buffalo Bill fable.
That's only a fable.
But what other proofs have you besides your own words that all this is not a fable based by you upon truth.
Who recalls the fable of The Tortoise and the Hare? The swift yet lazy little cottontail and his slow but determined companion?
Only as a myth, a dark fable, a horror tale, told across the flickering embers of a midnight fire wherever hardened space dogs gather to drink fermented vegetable products and compete in tales of blood-chilling terror.
It is the golden fable of which we all dream.
It's a fable beyond fiction, for l think if you'll study this picture and think about it, when it's over, you'll realize that this is something more than just a story told.
It's a fable with a meaning and a significance for you and for me in the 20th century.
A fable? Most assuredly.
Fable? Sure.
Pardon me, General. There is an old Indian fable: A hungry wolf and a hungry bear met at a stream.
Oh, yes. A delightful fable.
Then he dishes up a fable. A pipe dream he imbibed Under the table.
I'm telling you, Fred, that fable may be scientifically feasible.
Aesop's Fable warns us against avarice.
Fellow in the fable, he let greed destroy him.
It seems to be a fable. What can be inferred is that Morhange was killed by the Tuaregs. No.
You belong in a fable.
Not the legend of their nobility, but the fable of their hidden wealth.
This is no fable, you fool.
Someone, but I think it's just a fable.
It's a fable, about moral values.
In Paris, in London, a human fable collapses, a great history, with its thoughts and its poetry.
I look down towards his feet but that's a fable.
Gigi, Charly and myself, the following fable, would like to share with you.
And then the magic lantern's beautiful fable.

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Fable of the Bees developed a wide following, and generated substantial controversy, which continues to this day.

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