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

Madame d'Harville could not restrain a smile at this singular apologue.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

The apologue seizes on that which man has in common with creatures below him, and the parable on that which he has in common with God.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

The apologue was not delicate, but it conveyed a common impression.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

A tuft of primroses was blooming hard by the leg of an old, black table tombstone, and he stopped to contemplate the random apologue.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis