Fable Sentence Examples

The whole fable about how her stepson died was a fabrication.

Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes.

On this occasion he recited the well-known fable of the belly and the members.

He wrote a fantastic fable which he wanted to read to the rest of the class.

This story is mere fable, for the problem is far older than Plato.

Many Utopias, such as the Fable of the Bees and Erewhon, are designed to satirize existing social conditions as well as to depict a more perfect civilization.

The fable was that this constellation was one of the arrows with which Hercules killed the vulture which gnawed the liver of Prometheus.

The old fable of this bird inserting its beak into a reed or plunging it into the ground, and so causing the booming sound with which its name will be always associated, is also exploded, and nowadays indeed so few people in Britain have ever heard its loud and awful voice, which seems to be uttered only in the breeding-season, and is therefore unknown in a country where it no longer breeds, that incredulity as to its booming at all has in some quarters succeeded the old belief in this as in other reputed peculiarites of the species.

What else is this story, beside a beast fable?

It changed thought into an emotional dream; it plunged into the ocean of sentiment; it treated the old world of fable as the reflection of a higher reality, and transformed reality into poetry; and after all these expedients, to borrow a phrase of Augustine's, it only saw afar off the land of its desire.

The French legend of the knight of the swan is attached to the house of Bouillon, and although William of Tyre refers to it about 1170 as fable, it was incorporated without question by later annalists.

It is easy for the student now to show the inadequacy of his sources, and his failure here or there to discriminate between fact and fable.

Fable is a role playing game with strong action-adventure gameplay elements.

Two shepherds, Amintas and Faustus, discuss the familiar theme of the respective merits of town and country life, and relate a quaint fable of the origin of the different classes of society.

He never, it should be 1 Nor all a lie, nor all true, nor all fable, nor all known, so much have the story-tellers told, and the fablers fabled, in order to embellish their tales, that they have made all seem fable.

In the South Sea Islands, generally, the fable of the union and separation of Heaven and Earth is current; other forms will be found in Gill's Myths and Songs from the South Pacific. The cosmogonic myths of the Aryans of India are peculiarly interesting, as we find in the Vedas and Brahmanas and Puranas almost every fiction familiar to savages side by side with the most abstract metaphysical speculations.

Fable II has won several awards, including Game of the Year honors from more than one publication.

He speaks of "his fine expression, elegancy and quaintness," and adds, "he does so possess the soul with his graces that we forget those of his fable."

The early history of Navarre has been overlaid with fable, and with pure falsification, largely the work of the Benedictines of San Juan de la Pea near Huesca Their object was to prove the foundation of their house by a.

All this appears in the form of a story or fable, called an allegory.

Children write a play script based on a well known fable or story.

Melee combat is pretty much the meat and potatoes of Fable.

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Sir John Tenniel, who was already famous for his cartoons in Punch, a comic for adults, illustrated the fable.

Even using such broad strokes, Fridriksson could have created a more compelling fable.

On all this the recent archaeological discoveries (see the section on Archaeology) have thrown great light, but the earliest written history of Crete, like that of most parts of continental Greece, is mixed up with mythology and fable to so great an extent as to render it difficult to arrive at any clear conclusions concerning it.

Andrew's report to his sovereign, whom he rejoined in 1251 at Caesarea in Palestine, appears to have been a mixture of history and fable; the latter affects his narrative of the Mongols' rise to greatness, and the struggles of their leader, evidently Jenghiz Khan, with Prester John; it is still more evident in the position assigned to the Tatar homeland, close to the prison of Gog and Magog.

It was a period with him of great mental activity, and is represented by four of his books which stand as admirable witnesses to the Lowell of 1848, namely, the second series of Poems, containing among others "Columbus," "An Indian Summer Reverie," "To the Dandelion," "The Changeling"; A Fable for Critics, in which, after the manner of Leigh Hunt's The Feast of the Poets, he characterizes in witty verse and with good-natured satire American contemporary writers, and in which, the publication being anonymous, he included himself; The Vision of Sir Launfal, a romantic story suggested by the Arthurian legends - one of his most popular poems; and finally The Biglow Papers.

For, as not a single pilgrim passes through the Wicket Gate in infancy, and as Faithful hurries past the House Beautiful without stopping, the lesson which the fable in its altered shape teaches, is that none but adults ought to be baptized, and that the eucharist may safely be neglected.

A similar fable of an original choice, in which the chooser is beguiled by appearances, recurs in Africa and North America (see the caskets in the Merchant of Venice).

The chimera is a mysterious mythical creature, only a fable.

When you think about retirement and estate planning, consider the fable of the grasshopper and the ant.

With less of a focus on violence and more of a focus on magic and fantasy, the Fable series of role-playing games made a big splash on the Microsoft Xbox 360.

One of the best Xbox 360 games is from the Fable franchise and Fable III is set for release in October 2010.

Taking place in a fantasy world, Fable III lets players continue the role of the child from Fable II, except now he can rise to become the ruler of Albion.

Here is where you'll get your first taste of Fable's "moral alignment" system, where you decide, more or less, if you want to be a good kid or a bad kid.

The adventure in Fable involves you doing various quest around the land of Albion.

Whether these be quests from the Heroes' Guild that advance the story, or simply doing small tasks for one of the villagers, is entirely up to you.The combat in Fable is simple yet varied enough to keep it interesting.

They are passed off as fable or reduced to the status of mistaken accounts of volcanic explosions in the Aegean.

Different foes will attack you in different ways, though once you get used to the workings of Fable, it's never that difficult to win a fight.

Fable's somewhat cartoony style works very well.

With all of the focus on Fable's morality system, it really seems like they could've spent some more time on the actually content of the game.

Not to say that it's bad, quite the opposite, but aside from the moral choices that affect the game, everything about Fable seems like it's been done before.

Nevertheless, Fable is a worthwhile adventure, and the morality system is definitely worth checking out.

Unless you have an utter hatred for RPGs, I'd say Fable is definitely worth at least a rental.

Fable is an open-ended role-playing game designed for Xbox where you mold the character from childhood, through maturity and old age.

Fable is his answer to that call, and as far as revolutionary steps are concerned, this game is full of them.

However, I don't think that they stand in the way of the experience Fable offers.

The monkey print is based on the famous Monkey King from the Chinese fable who could transform into 72 different images.

The name, however, is so obscured by myth and fable as scarcely to belong to history.

But it was eagerly taken up by the antiGustavian press, and popular suspicion was especially aroused by a fable called "The Foxes" directed against the Fersens, which appeared in Nya Posten.

Michael Scot (1175-1234), acting as a confederate of the Evil One (so the fable runs) cleft Eildon Hill, then a single cone, into the three existing peaks.

He tells his fable and draws the moral with businesslike directness and simplicity; his language is terse and clear, but thoroughly prosaic, though it occasionally attains a dignity bordering on eloquence.

In the 18th century the abbe Banier, in his Mythologie et la fable pliquees par l'histoire, was frankly Euhemeristic; other leading Euhemerists were Clavier, Sainte-Croix, Raoul Rochette, Em.

Naruszewicz has not the happy vivacity of Krasicki; he attempts all kinds of poetry, especially satire and fable.

During the reign of Peisistratus he is said to have visited Athens, on which occasion he related the fable of The Frogs asking for a King, to dissuade the citizens from attempting to exchange Peisistratus for another ruler.

But the story of the ichneumon or mongoose is a fable.

Once more, however, a desperate attempt was made, by the fable of the "black box," to establish Monmouth's claims; and once more these claims were met by Charles's public declarations in the Gazette that he had never been married but to the queen.

No king of Scotland could dream of executing such a coup d'etat; the authority for it is that mythopoeic earl of Arran who later became regent, and told the fable to Henry's agent, Sir Ralph Sadleyr.

The Fable was reprinted in 1729, a ninth edition appeared in 1 755and it has often been reprinted in more recent times.

Bernard de Mandeville's Fable of the Bees is unique in that it describes the downfall of an ideal commonwealth.

Confucius's own ancestry is traced up, through the sovereigns of the previous dynasty of Shang, to Hwang-ti, whose figure looms out through the mists of fable in prehistoric times.

There was a school (with internal divisions) which regarded ancient fable as almost entirely " a disease of language," that is, as the result of confusions arising from misunderstood terms that have survived in speech after their original significance was lost.

The baser Greek myths of the wanderings, amours and adventures of the gods, myths ignored by Homer, are parallel to the adventures of the Alcheringa people, and the fable of the mutilation of Osiris and the search for the lost organ by Isis, actually occurs among the Alcheringa tales of Messrs Spencer and Gillen.

In the Hesiodic fable, Cronus separates the heavenly pair by mutilating his oppressive father Uranus.

The vernacular name barnacle, traceable to the fable of pedunculate cirripedes hatching out into bernicle geese, has also been transferred to the sessile cirripedes, which are popularly known as acorn barnacles.

The scene of the story is partly laid in Chester, but the fable in slightly different forms occurs in the folk-lore of many countries.

In the musicals, the guy is bewitched and they live happily ever after, but mom knew a fable when she met one.

The film succeeds not only in terms of action and suspense but as cautionary fable, historical allegory, social satire and moral disquisition.

The feature-length ' Tale of the Fox ', Starewicz ' best-known work, is a technically audacious, gleefully wicked medieval animal fable.

Is this true, or is it a cunningly devised fable?

Can you think of a famous children's fable about someone or something being different, being the odd-one-out?

Bankers, men of a more positive nature, devised a specious fable.

The poet Hesiod tells a fable of Zeus creating a race of bronze men from Ashes.

It's a timeless, paranoid fable that grabs at the emotions, negates the intellect, and reduces everything to absolutes.

We have even the same inset moral fable, in the form of the man of the hill's narrative.

The play also just misses the tone of comic fable that Williams intended to give it an air of innocence.

The story told in Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle is borrowed from an ancient Chinese fable and echoes the Judgment of Solomon.

A warning for the dehumanized Japanese society, the film has the feel of an adult fable.

The Soldier's Tale is a morality fable in which the Devil appears in different guises.

True Lies The Garden An early morning fable for the post-secular, post-everything generation.

In this overtly moralistic fable, Stu's extramarital sins are limited to taking off his wedding ring for his daily phone calls.

Remember the fable of the Sun and the Wind and be gently persuasive.

Serious students in Portugal and abroad welcomed the book as an historical work of the first rank, for its evidence of careful research, its able marshalling of facts, its learning and its painful accuracy, while the sculptural simplicity of the style and the correctness of the diction have made it a Portuguese classic. The first volume, however, gave rise to a celebrated controversy, because Herculano had reduced the famous battle of Ourique, which was supposed to have seen the birth of the Portuguese monarchy, to the dimensions of a mere skirmish, and denied the apparition of Christ to King Affonso, a fable first circulated in the 15th century.

Magic is a big part of Fable, and before you know it, you'll be unlocking all sorts of spells as you level up your magic abilities.

You travel through Fable's third person action/RPG and face an endless series of decisions that mold your hero (or anti-hero) into the fantasy character you want him to be.

Wik and the Fable of Souls is a unique storybook-like game where you control a little creature trying to find his lost family.

Wik and the Fable of Souls can be downloaded and played for a limited time period at no charge.

Halo and Fable'' are classic hits that you can't go wrong with.

The corruption feature -- similar to that found in Fable -- gives you this option to be more evil.

Aries's passionate nature excites Aquarius who is eager to explore this fire sign's fable skills as a lover.

According to some, the Lapithae are representatives of the giants of fable, or spirits of the storm; according to others, they are a semi-legendary, semi-historical race, like the Myrmidons and other Thessalian tribes.

We assume that the rite employed was serious and Anglican may reverent, and there is no longer any need to refute the fable of a ludicrous consecration at the "Nag's Head " tavern.

The fable of the centaurs, if the derivation from to goad, Taupos, bull, be accepted (but see Centaur), would indicate the early existence of pastoral peoples living on horseback, like the modern cowboys (cp. "cow-punchers") or gauchos of North and South America.

The murder of Arthur (1203) ruined his cause in Normandy and Anjou; the story that the court of the peers of France condemned him for the murder is a fable, but no legal process was needed to convince men of his guilt.

The latter is one of his best essays on criticism, defining with perfect lucidity what is meant by "action" in works of the imagination, and distinguishing the action of the fable from that of the epic and the drama.

The work by which he is known is the Fable of the Bees, published first in 1705 under the title of The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turn'd Honest (two hundred doggerel couplets).

In the Fable he shows a society possessed of all the virtues "blest with content and honesty," falling into apathy and utterly paralyzed.

Whatever the truth or fable of the first forty years of his life, he had certainly been a close and accurate observer, and had made himself acquainted with many curious and little-known phenomena, which he had stored up in a most tenacious memory.

Giants, as well as a blind or one-eyed monster, are frequently introduced, and the Aesopic fable is not without its representatives.

How do I know this isn't all a fable just to dump Fitz?

Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness.

There is a ton of replay in Fable game and as many mini-gripes as I had, the whole of the game was more than the sum of its parts.

Before Prester John appears upon the scene we find the way prepared for his appearance by a kindred fable, which entwined itself with the legends about him.

The new theories of mythology are based on the belief that " it is man, it is human thought and human language combined, which naturally and necessarily produced the strange conglomerate of ancient fable."' But, while there is now universal agreement so far, modern mythologists differed essentially on one point.

The 4th and 5th books, though still mixed with fable, contain much valuable information, and become more authentic the more nearly they approach the author's own time.

The most extreme cases of this belief is the well- - known fable of the "barnacle-geese," an illustrated account of which was printed in an early volume of the Royal Society of London.

The name Jotunheim (giants' home) is a modern memorial of the mountain-dwelling giants of Norse fable; the alternative name Jotun Fjelde was the first bestowed on the region, when it was explored in 1820 by the geologist Balthasar Matthias Keilhau (1797-1858).

There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the air for which earth offered no worthy foundation.

In the fable of Reynard the Fox the name of the hare is Coart, Kywart, Cuwaert or other variants.

Admitting that the fable of the battle of the gods was " unbecoming," if literally understood, Theagenes represented it as an allegorical account of the war of the elements.

The spirit of Nathan der Weise may not have been exactly the spirit engendered by the Crusades; and yet it is not without reason that Lessing stages the fable which teaches toleration in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem.

The "fable" appears to be antagonistic to ideas of monarchy.

An elderly dame, too, dwells in my neighborhood, invisible to most persons, in whose odorous herb garden I love to stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables; for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fact every one is founded, for the incidents occurred when she was young.

Like the gentle dove in the fable she was to pine apart from me....