apologue
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This reading of Louis and Claudia’s lineage allows writer Hannah Moscovitch to transform a station along the characters’ development track into an apologue about war and misery.
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
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
The apologue was not delicate, but it conveyed a common impression.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
A round of hoarse merriment went to this shrewd apologue, of which I was yet to learn the application; but waited not long for it.
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
The following exquisite little apologue, which was given us in the early days of our novitiate, is an instance in point:— A blind man once lost himself in a forest.
From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland
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