He wrote of ''sour grapes''

Usage examples of aesop.

It was prettily devised of Aesop that the fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.

This appetite for grapes is so well confirmed by Aesop, and by passages in the Scriptures, that it is strange Mr.

If we had not agreed, we should have split Aguazul apart, and like the dog in the fable of Aesop that dropped its bone in the river through greed, we should have lost all that we were fighting to save.

He recited mathematical formulae to it, he told it an Aesop fable, he gave it portions of the federal mining laws.

According to Aesop slow but steady won the race, and Metellus Pius was the embodiment of slow but steady.

This refers to an extremely popular medieval cycle of animal stories, in which human failings are placed in animal guise, a device that dates back to Aesop in the Western tradition.

The matriarch of all the gods, instituted for a millennium here, beneath the cliffs off which Aesop threw himself to his death.

Like a character in some Aesop fable, Milarepa waited, reclining in the sun against a boulder while the shaman climbed vigorously toward the summit.

I concluded that AEsop himself must have been a little Love beside his eminence.

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.

It was a nice room with large chesterfields and lounging chairs done in pale yellow leather arranged around a fireplace in front of which, on the glossy but not slippery floor, lay a rug as thin as silk and as old as Aesops aunt.

Aesop stated it sardonically in the fable of the convention of the mice, when he inquired gently, 'Who is to bell the cat?