apologue

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As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2016

U and e are both silent in the words rogue, brogue, fugue, eclogue, prologue, apologue, epilogue, intrigue, fatigue, synagogue, demagogue, pedagogue, decalogue, catalogue, mystagogue, picturesque, burlesque, grotesque, pique, casique.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.

In the meanwhile, be content with the following version of the apologue, and be not too critical.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

Shortly afterwards, it was again brought forward by Dr. Franklin, in an ingenious apologue, marked by his peculiar humor, simplicity, logic, and humanity.

From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles

I am rather proud of this little apologue of the apple.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane