How To Use Aesop In A Sentence
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The well-known joke, which has an almost Aesopian ring to it, about the running shoes and the bear is apposite.
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Aside from regular updates from the future, the curmudgeon began his blogging career with a series of planetary profiles packed with references that are both esoteric and Aesopian.
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The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. Aesop
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I produced the original cartoon in tempera; it was entitled Treasure Trove and based on an Aesop Fable.
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Quisque in alio superfluum esse censet, ipse quod non habet nec curat, that which he hath not himself or doth not esteem, he accounts superfluity, an idle quality, a mere foppery in another: like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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There is the study that showed how a Eurasian corvid called a rook figured out that it could raise the level of water in a pitcher by adding rocks to it, just like in the ancient Aesop fable, so it could get a drink.
David Mizejewski: Corvids Are Oddly Intelligent
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In one of the longest tales, recalling the camp appeal of 'Xena: Warrior Princess, ' Sappho and Aesop discover a separatist commune of Amazons.
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For the record, the former Aesop Rock producer is more in line with his new labelmates than he ever was with the king of cinematic swells.
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His fables, written in iambic senarii, consist of beast-tales based largely on ‘Aesop’, as well as jokes and instructive stories taken not only from Hellenistic collections but also from his own personal experience.
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He who shares the danger ought to share the prize. Aesop
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I learn from the notes on my copy of Aesop's Fables that the ancient Greeks caught birds with ixos (‘birdlime’), a sticky substance usually made from crushed mistletoe berries, or sometimes from oak-gum or similar.
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(If you’ve never listened to Aesop, what I mean is this; he is the pioneer and master of Dadaist hip-hop, and his songs are chock-full of spectacular lines that mean
nothing.)
F.l.a.s.h.f.l.o.o.d
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By placing extreme emphasis on the moral of each tale, stories such as the tale of Sukanya and Sunisa and the Aesop's fables seek to foster a particular code of behavior and attitudes in the children of Thai immigrants.
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This is the second in a series of books in which the renowned novelist and her son retell Aesop's tales.
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Briefly, in such a world without order and array, owing nothing, lending nothing, and borrowing nothing, you would see a more dangerous conspiration than that which Aesop exposed in his Apologue.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool. Aesop
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In a tale with an Aesopian flavor, an ant who politely waits her turn for cake seems at first to lose but wins in the end.
2010 January 09 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Allusive, or parabolical, is a narration applied only to express some special purpose or conceit; which latter kind of parabolical wisdom was much more in use in the ancient times, as by the fables of AEsop, and the brief sentences of the seven, and the use of hieroglyphics may appear.
The Advancement of Learning
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The second work of our poetess consists of a collection of fables, generally called Aesopian, which she translated into French verse.
The Lay of Marie
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop
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There is the study that showed how a Eurasian corvid called a rook figured out that it could raise the level of water in a pitcher by adding rocks to it, just like in the ancient Aesop fable, so it could get a drink.
David Mizejewski: Corvids Are Oddly Intelligent
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop
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The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. Aesop
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop
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Apart from the Contes, skillfully etched narratives of casual romance published in 1664, La Fontaine is chiefly known for his animal fables in the tradition of Aesop.
Mexico's Voltaire: José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776–1827)
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In Aesop's fable ‘The Tortoise and the Hare,’ a hare ridicules a tortoise who challenges his mocker to a race.
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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop
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Thus the wonderful vaulted ceiling of the dawning room is thronged with birds while its walls are painted with Aesop's fables, Lady's Bute bedroom offer interesting contrasts in style and comfort.
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Since Aesop mined the animal kingdom for characters, it was only natural that he incorporated plenty of birds in his fables.
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Corvids such as Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws were more complex characters in Aesop's fables because they could be both vain and foolish, a powerful combination to be sure.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop
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Like Aesop before him, Ambrose Bierce included animals in his fables in order to demonstrate human failings and quirks of character.
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William Caxton, the great fifteenth-century Brit-ish printer and translator, was first to render Aesop in our language.
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Aesop must have been a keen observer of natural animal rhythms.
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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. Aesop
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The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit. Aesop
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop
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Gastroesophageal reflux can lead to extraesophageal complications, including laryngitis, chronic cough, refractory asthma and dental erosions.
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Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers.
Fables
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Russia had censors and sent many journalists to Siberia, but in America Aesopian writing “for discerning readers” does not have that excuse.
Matthew Yglesias » Al-Qaeda in Iraq
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In Aesop, the Fox espies a juicy bunch of grapes and leaps repeatedly at the overhanging vine.
Children's Books
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I presume, in the so-called Aesopian language, or, no matter what we said, we really meant its opposite.
Statement at the Smith Act Trial
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These things, saith Aesop after his reproving way, ought rather to have been discussed privately among ourselves, lest we be accounted antimonarchical while we desire to be esteemed friends and loyal counsellors.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist.
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Adam Schofield examines the ways Juraj Herz's The Cremator "elicits psychological horror through its disorienting cinematography," how it "reflects trends in Nazi propaganda" and "the much-overlooked indirectly subversive Aesopian messages pertaining to communism that the film directed towards Czechoslovakian audiences of the late 1960s.
GreenCine Daily: Senses of Cinema. 43.
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It is easy to be brave at a safe distance. Aesop
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CalebAesop: humidity is raising temperature, and in the process of condensing there is circle of energy losings.
Make Your Refrigerator Far More Efficient | Lifehacker Australia
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In the 6th century BCE the Greek author Aesop wrote his timeless fables - short narratives in which animals are the central characters and the aim is to convey a moral message.
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So pay heed to old Aesop's sage counsel, I pray--and keep your distance.
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To back his Aesopian premise he also suggests that Stella Rimington was merely rambling on and apparently she doesn't understand the 'the genuine threat that new forms of terrorism pose' which kind of left me wondering whether the chutzpah of this man has an end.
I knew it was too good to be true.
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He who shares the danger ought to share the prize. Aesop
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop
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In early December, Aesop cut his finger opening a can of cling peaches.
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Swanson draws upon sources as diverse as Aesop's fables and mathematician/statistician John Allen Paulos for examples, covering everything from failed doomsday predictions to the pseudosciences of graphology and horoscopes.
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None of the stories are precisely those of Aesop, and none have the concinnity, terseness, and unmistakable deduction of the lesson intended to be taught by the fable, so conspicuous in the great Greek fabulist.
Fables
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the central character in the Roman de Renart, a series of popular satirical fables, related to the bestiaries and the tradition from Aesop's Fables, written in France at various times c. 1175-1250.
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He who shares the danger ought to share the prize. Aesop
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Little by little does the trick. Aesop
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Pore Man
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I produced the original cartoon in tempera; it was entitled Treasure Trove and based on an Aesop Fable.
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. Aesop
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Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool. Aesop
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This reminds me of the moral from an Aesop fable about a scorpion that gets a ride across a river on the back of a frog, but stings the frog to death before they get to the other side.
