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  • noun Plural form of apologue.

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Examples

  • The employment of apologues, which is sanctioned by scripture, seems to be a natural mode of imparting instruction.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • The long Crusading Romance is relieved by a sequence of sixteen fabliaux, partly historiettes of men and beasts and partly apologues proper — a subject already noticed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Pehlevi became the Jávidán Khirad (“Wisdom of Ages”) or the Testament of Hoshang, that ancient guebre King, and in Sanskrit the Panchatantra (“Five Chapters”), is a recueil of apologues and anecdotes related by the learned Brahman, Vishnu

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Sarit Sagara the beast-apologues are more numerous, but they can be reduced to two great nuclei; the first in chapter lx.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Our Recueil contains two distinct sets of apologues.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • This style of composition may be as ancient as the apologues.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As for the library, its window is full of pictures of burly theologians, and their works, sermons, apologues, and so forth.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • And let it be remembered, that Aesop at play is one of the instructive apologues of antiquity.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • In the course of our conversation, I pressed her to allow me the honour of waiting upon her next day at her lodgings, a request which she, with many apologues, refused, lest it should give umbrage to Sir

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • The old Suffet mingled his speech in this way with proverbs and apologues, nodding his head the while to solicit some approval.

    Salammbo 2003

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