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

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

And yet, though it is a watery apologue, it will not hold water for a moment.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

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

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

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John