Utiliser "fab" dans une phrase

1. They were nothing more than a fable

2. It was a fable, something from a bygone age that she'd read about

3. "Can you think of one that is fortunate? The whole point of the fable was that their relationship was secret

4. Even this very good cherub gave up at that point and said, "But we're getting off the point here, the point of the fable wasn't the king's morals, it was the king's power

5. “You set me up,” he said, “and they may be setting you up by seeing where you run if they feed you a fable about that bottle

6. Alternatively, the fable indicates that there is a lesson to be learned or a message that you need to listen to

7. This fable ensures that she will grow up to see someone else in a position of power…definitely not her

8. on the twin crutches of fable and human credulity

9. what he was reading; this is a fable about a lawyer who had a heart attack, went to

10. ” You listen, she is enjoying your company, you see her losing herself in the fable

11. I’d had more than my fill of Alistair’s fable and ordered the officers to cuff him

12. There is a fable which il ustrates the difference between a negative and positive

13. The shining dome of Alkmeenon was no fable, then

14. Only a few names of lands, tribes and cities remained in the languages of the barbarians, to come down through the centuries connected with distorted legend and fable, until the whole history of the Hyborian age was lost sight of in a cloud of myths and fantasies

15. If what I describe conflicts with the ten thousand other reports – no matter how revered those reports and those who filed them may be – then to me those reports are nothing more than fable and folklore and should be consigned to the dust-heap of history

16. It had happened so long ago, the story had become legend, an interesting but harmless fable

17. So that the fable of the Virginia ham was nonsense, the same as that of the miraculous pills and the Yuletide toilets, and by a decision of the court it was established and set down in solemn decrees that the workers did not exist

18. Unlike Aureliano José who tried to drown that image in the bloody bog of war, he tried to keep it alive in the sink of concupiscence while he entertained his mother with the endless fable of his pontifical vocation

19. successful and rich, consequently the fable of three wishes has

20. The fact that the local church officials promptly built a church containing her supposed remains and collected donations from visiting pilgrims shows that story for what it really is: a fable meant to bring money to the coffers of the local church

21. understanding of the false gospels regarding the Rapture is wrapped around this errant fable

22. Whether Atlantis is a myth, a fable, or otherwise, the idea of an

23. Young Heracles knew that fable well, as it had been part of his mnemotronic lessons on ancient Greece

24. ‘’Inspector, I simply play the role of the She-Hulk in movies: I am not the She-Hulk and you will have a pretty hard time trying to convince a prosecution magistrate to gobble that fable up

25. when the obvious once betrayed the fable

26. crocodile in the old fable about the crocodile and the rabbit

27. This fable is about a race between a fleeting Achilles and a slow moving Tortoise that could never be won by Achilles since the little advantage that was initially given out towards the Tortoise could never be written off

28. The axe in the fable only begged the trees to let him have one little piece of wood to make a handle, and he would never trouble them anymore

29. [30] There is an old fable, that the butterfly once asked the owl how she should deal with the fire, which had singed her wings; and the owl counselled her, in reply, not to behold so much as its smoke

30. Often she wondered if that story was no more than a child’s fable, spun to kindle awe I their subordinates

31. “Reincarnation is a fable invented by people, because most of them, I would say, have pathological thanatophobia

32. according to the childhood fable, THE

33. But to serve their own interests, these enthusiasts shift registers and abruptly lean toward a historical reading depending on their dialectical needs, they seek both faith and reason, belief and documentation, fable and truth

34. fable, and of the stuff of immortality

35. For example: insist government regulations increase the cost of everything, then weave a media fable about a woman who stupidly burned herself with coffee and sued her way to millionairehood

36. In the Christian Bible is a fable of Samson who wanted to destroy the Philistines,

37. , moral ( of a story or fable)

38. In anticipation of the warmer weather that would inevitably arrive, he had Andre tell the boys the fable of Pandora's Box

39. The fable, as retold to them by Andre, had an immediate and intense effect upon the boys as it evoked visions of the Grim Reaper advancing upon them

40. if it be not history, it is fable; and if fable, let it be treated

41. Fable: Cunningly devised traditions and speculations; an idle story of fiction

42. promote a hoax however, this is not the only fable science invented

43. I have explained that planets move around the sun by forming Π and not Newton’s fable of mass attracting mass

44. His aphorism is just an analogy of the 3 stupid, fear-filled monkeys of ancient fable who were all cowards

45. Every cultural story, Myth, legend, and fable of leering, grinning, frowning, scowling evil monsters: comes from the horror of an innocent baby, an innocent fetus-child seeking love and happiness and safety… opening its innocent eyes… only to find himself of herself; surrounded by leering, ugly, evil insane human monsters all around them

46. Instead, he invented a fable full of cunning lies and lying legends

47. reports are nothing more than fable and folklore and should be consigned to the dustheap

48. The myth of the ankle bone in European fable: the lowest of the low: being the most loving the most faithfully steadfast true love there is

49. There is a Greek fable about a youth sitting in a fig tree, surrounded by ripe, juicy figs

50. unsupportable fable in this age of science and increased knowledge

51. some of you live as if this is a fable

52. What a grand field was here open before the Lord for the play of metaphors, what a parable in itself, what an opportunity to take that fable and teach them a lesson of solid truth, and paint before their eyes their own true condition, and the results of it

53. If a fable passes as a fable it attracts little or no attention, but let it be circulated as truth, and the more extraordinary its details, the more wonder, excitement and comment it elicits

54. invented the fable of a mysterious Arabic manuscript, and set up Cide Hamete Benengeli in imitation of the almost invariable practice of the chivalry-romance authors, who were fond of tracing their books to some recondite source

55. That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,

56. The captain, standing a little to one side, was listening to all the curate said, and watching every movement of his brother, who, as soon as he perceived the curate had made an end of his story, gave a deep sigh and said with his eyes full of tears, "Oh, senor, if you only knew what news you have given me and how it comes home to me, making me show how I feel it with these tears that spring from my eyes in spite of all my worldly wisdom and self-restraint! That brave captain that you speak of is my eldest brother, who, being of a bolder and loftier mind than my other brother or myself, chose the honourable and worthy calling of arms, which was one of the three careers our father proposed to us, as your comrade mentioned in that fable you thought he was telling you

57. 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

58. What beauty, then, or what proportion of the parts to the whole, or of the whole to the parts, can there be in a book or fable where a lad of sixteen cuts down a giant as tall as a tower and makes two halves of him as if he was an almond cake? And when they want to give us a picture of a battle, after having told us that there are a million of combatants on the side of the enemy, let the hero of the book be opposed to them, and we have perforce to believe, whether we like it or not, that the said knight wins the victory by the single might of his strong arm

59. God was not a blind force, and immortality was not a pretty fable, but a blessed fact

60. Is there any need to say that Don Lorenzo enjoyed hearing himself praised by Don Quixote, albeit he looked upon him as a madman? power of flattery, how far-reaching art thou, and how wide are the bounds of thy pleasant jurisdiction! Don Lorenzo gave a proof of it, for he complied with Don Quixote's request and entreaty, and repeated to him this sonnet on the fable or story of Pyramus and Thisbe

61. Thus, led by the strangest of fates, I was treading underfoot one of the mountains of that continent! My hands were touching ruins many thousands of years old, contemporary with prehistoric times! I was walking in the very place where contemporaries of early man had walked! My heavy soles were crushing the skeletons of animals from the age of fable, animals that used to take cover in the shade of these trees now turned to

62. Someone gave me a copy of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a fable about a shepherd boy who travels to the Pyramids in search of treasure when all the time it’s at home

63. "None at all, my friends, at least in those that go beyond the bounds of credibility and fly off into fable or legend

64. But what astonished Franz, who had treated Gaetano's description as a fable, was the splendor of the apartment in which he found himself

65. As a remedy for unemployment this scheme was on a par with the method of the tailor in the fable who thought to lengthen his cloth by cutting a piece off one end and sewing it on to the other; but there was one thing about it that recommended it to the Vicar - it was self-supporting

66. a tone of reflection, "and had always considered it a fable

67. The gate once closed, and Debray and the baroness alone in the court, he asked,—"What was the matter with you, Hermine? and why were you so affected at that story, or rather fable, which the count related?"

68. ‘Well, what of it? There’s a fable of Grimm’s about a man without a shadow, a man who’s lost his shadow

69. from an acquaintance and uttered as his own, came from a fable of Krilov’s, and that the acquaintance had picked it up from a newspaper article

70. Some of them represent the fable of Cupid and Psyche, which is probably the romantic invention of a literary period, and cannot, I think, be reckoned as a genuine mythical product

71. As for me, what was my Response to the News that I might soon be Mistress of Lymeworth? I’faith, I scarcely believ’d it! ’Twas a Fairy Tale, a Dream, a Fable from a Book of French Romances! First, as a Bastard—and a female one at that—how might I inherit the Estate settl’d upon Lord Bellars by his Father? Then, what Reason had I to believe that Lymeworth was unencumber’d by Debts and Mortgages! Why some of the greatest Houses in all of England were as heavy with Mortgages as their Chestnut Trees were heavy with Chestnuts! I presum’d, therefore, that Lord Bellars had left his Affairs in great Disarray, o’erspent mightily upon this aborted Renovation of Lymeworth, and was in Debt to his Architect, his Landscape Gardener, all his Builders, Painters, and Plasterers, not to mention his Banker, and e’en his Lawyer! In London he had liv’d high; at Lymeworth e’en his Expences for his Horses, Grooms, and Stables—not to mention his Hounds—must be hundreds of Pounds a Year, nay thousands

72. “And all because of a story! A fable! A fiction, my friends

73. The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable

74. ‘Ah me! I believed in some ideal love which was to keep her faithful to me for the whole year of my absence! Like the gentle dove in the fable she was to pine apart from me

75. No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which was regarded at the prefecture as a fable

76. The invention of this fable was attributed to the coachman

77. Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold

78. Is it not illustrative of the force of habit that Chénier should denounce the exploitation of Fable and gods by poets in the very conventional language he might be expected to object to? In reading l

79. It is very certain, at any rate, that once there was no pond here, and now there is one; and this Indian fable does not in any respect conflict with the account of that ancient settler whom I have mentioned, who remembers so well when he first came here with his divining-rod, saw a thin vapor rising from the sward, and the hazel pointed steadily downward, and he concluded to dig a well here

80. There have been caught in Walden pickerel, one weighing seven pounds—to say nothing of another which carried off a reel with great velocity, which the fisherman safely set down at eight pounds because he did not see him—perch and pouts, some of each weighing over two pounds, shiners, chivins or roach (Leuciscus pulchellus), a very few breams, and a couple of eels, one weighing four pounds—I am thus particular because the weight of a fish is commonly its only title to fame, and these are the only eels I have heard of here;—also, I have a faint recollection of a little fish some five inches long, with silvery sides and a greenish back, somewhat dace-like in its character, which I mention here chiefly to link my facts to fable

81. There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the air for which earth offered no worthy foundation

82. Thus for sixteen days I saw from my window a hundred men at work like busy husbandmen, with teams and horses and apparently all the implements of farming, such a picture as we see on the first page of the almanac; and as often as I looked out I was reminded of the fable of the lark and the reapers, or the parable of the sower, and the like; and now they are all gone, and in thirty days more, probably, I shall look from the same window on the pure sea-green Walden water there, reflecting the clouds and the trees, and sending up its evaporations in solitude, and no traces will appear that a man has ever stood there

83. So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory

84. Most aptly did Krylof characterize him in the fable of the pike that went mouse-hunting

85. Well,, it was through a fable of Krylov's that I got to know you, Audrey Petrovitch

86. a fable or a passage from ' Woe from Wit,' I fancy

87. "As I recited, you smiled, but before I was half-way through the fable you rang the bell and told the footman who answered it to ask Tatyana Pavlovna to come, and she ran in with such a delighted face, that though I had seen her the evening before I scarcely knew her