apologies

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In hindsight, the trajectory is pretty direct from Deep Imagism to political poetry to “Iron John” — with its attacks against corporate visions of masculinity — to his recent apologues of the unconscious.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2018

The stores of profane history, philosophy, and science, the apologues and mythology of the ancients, were all made tributary to him.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

As pictures of English society, court, and manners in 1827 painted in fantastic apologues, they are most ingenious, and may be read again and again.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic

At the same time, then, they will study these fables as apologues, making in all cases their own moral and application.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander

Many of them are quite modern rechauffés of Hindú apologues, such as the Milkmaid and her Pot of Milk, which gave rise to our popular saying, “Don’t count your chickens until they be hatched.”

From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by Clouston, William Alexander