No tyranny is fabled and no tyrant was in deed Worse than our foe, whose works will act my words, if well he speed: For ill to ills superlative are easily enticed, But entertains amendment as the Gergesites did Christ. "A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature", - George Saintsbury

It was a car, if I remember aright, occupied almost entirely by men- passengers, and, so far as I could see, there were no evidences that men knew women from men, or vice versa, yet, at last, there seemed to dawn on four men sitting in a row that there was a wonderful creature reading a book on the other side of the aisle- a lovely young woman, with all the fabled beauty of the sea- shell, and the rainbow, that enchantment in her calm pearl- like face, and in the woven stillness of her hair, that has in all times and countries made men throw up sails and dare the unknown sea, and the unknown Fates. "Vanishing Roads and Other Essays", - Richard Le Gallienne

Did he spend his days cheering her with music, as all the fathers of feathered families are fabled to do? "A Bird-Lover in the West", - Olive Thorne Miller Harriet Mann Miller