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

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 Maitland, Edward

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 Wallis, Arthur F.

It is noteworthy that the two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus.

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

Shortly afterwards, it was again brought forward by Dr. Franklin, in an ingenious apologue, marked by his peculiar humor, simplicity, logic, and humanity.

From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles