fablers

They are no longer journalists; they are now promoters and fablers.

The Volokh Conspiracy » L.A. Times Coverage of Second Amendment Incorporation Decisions: 2009

Eumæus has an open single-hearted piety; he cannot play a disguise, he hates it for he has been deceived by it when assumed by lying fablers.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

No wonder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott's novels entertain us, -- we are poets and fablers and dramatists and novelists ourselves.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

It is the utmost stretch of human concession, to grant thought and language to living things; -- birds, beasts, and fishes; rights which the old fablers have rendered inalienable, as vehicles of instruction; but here, as I should think, the liberty ends.

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

Whiche opinion stucke in the myndes of men not manye yeares sithence, by meanes of certain fine fablers and lowd lyers, such as were the Authors of King Arthure the great and such like, who tell many an vnlawfull leasing of the Ladyes of the Lake, that is, the Nymphes.

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

These fablers say that Adam, who had refrained from the bed of his wife from the murder of Abel to that time, again lived with her as man and wife, in order that he might not by his example induce others to maintain perpetual continence, and thus prevent mankind from being multiplied.

Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Martin Luther 1514

The fancies of our modern bards are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming, than those of the classic fablers. —

The Expedition of Gradasso: A Metrical Romance. Selected from the Orlando ... Matteo Maria Boiardo 1812

From a very few rude and fimple tenets originally, thofe wild fablers called fcalds or poets had, in the courfe of eight or nine centuries, invented and raifed an amazing ftrutlure of fi9: ion* We muft x\u not, therefore, fuppofc that aH the fables of the Edda were equally known to the Gothic nations of every age or tribe.

Icelandic poetry 1797

It was a tradition invented by the old fablers that giants brought the stones of Stonehenge from the most sequestered deserts of Africa, and placed them in Ireland; that every stone was washed with juices of herbs, and contained a medical power; and that Merlin, the magician, at the request of King Arthur, transported them from Ireland, and erected them in circles on the plain of Amesbury, as a sepulchral monument for the Britons treacherously slain by Hengist.

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

It was a tradition invented by the old fablers that giants brought the stones of Stonehenge from the most sequestered deserts of Africa, and placed them in Ireland; that every stone was washed with juices of herbs, and contained a medical power; and that Merlin, the magician, at the request of King Arthur, transported them from Ireland, and erected them in circles on the plain of Amesbury, as a sepulchral monument for the Britons treacherously slain by Hengist.

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845