English example sentences with "fable"

The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable.
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The following passage was quoted from a well-known fable.
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I regaled the devil; he gave me a fable.
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Every fable ends up with a moral.
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It's a fable.
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Tom doesn't know the difference between a fable and a fairytale.
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On another occasion they delighted themselves with listening to a dove cooing in the neighbouring wood, and upon Chloe inquiring what the bird meant by its note, Daphnis told her the well-known fable which is related to all who ask that question.
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Daphnis and Chloe were delighted, but they regarded what they heard as a fable rather than as fact; and they inquired of Philetas, who and what this Love could be? Whether he was a boy or a bird? And what powers he could exert?
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What's the difference between a fable and a fairytale?
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This is the fable of the goat saying to the jackal: "Even when I graze, I watch you!"
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This is the fable of the goat saying to the jackal: "Even when I graze, I watch!"
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This is the fable of the goat saying to the jackal: "Even when I graze, I am aware!"
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"This one is yours, this one is mine and the other, we share it." This is what we would have said if we want to make lie the Kabyle fable of the couple of frogs when the male said: "This one is mine, this one is mine and the other, we share it", the day they decided to separate.
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Who does not know the fable of the cicada and the ant?
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"Drawing dragons and dotting in the eyes" is a fable.
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I have heard fifty versions, some credible, some plain fable.
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All preceding narrations are so intermixed with fable, that philosophers ought to abandon them in a great measure, to the embellishment of the poet and orator.
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Even in the choice and use of the finest works of fiction, the greatest caution is necessary. The little one can hardly distinguish between a fable that amuses it, and a lie told to shield it from punishment. If it hear nothing but truth, it will know nothing but truth; and a truthful mind is a glorious thing to behold in children as in men.
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