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

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

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

He justly estimates his own merits in the pretty apologue that he prefixed to his Fables.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

As La Fontaine puts it, an apologue is composed of two parts, body and soul.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

Let me tell you an apologue, M. le Vicomte.

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John