1 Her friends repeated the pleasing phrase enthusiastically, and for several minutes she stood, like a jackdaw in the fable, enjoying her borrowed plumes, while the rest chattered like a party of magpies.
2 let him send a French fable because he can't write out.
3 In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone's advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody.
4 God was not a blind force, and immortality was not a pretty fable, but a blessed fact.
5 People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable.
6 No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which was regarded at the prefecture as a fable.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 7 The invention of this fable was attributed to the coachman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 8 But what astonished Franz, who had treated Gaetano's description as a fable, was the splendor of the apartment in which he found himself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 9 Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing fable.
10 The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable.
11 Even the legendary craft of the company, a craft subtler and more secret than its fabled books of secret subtle wisdom, had not fired his soul with the energy of apostleship.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5