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It is a cautionary tale.

Backtracking the trail of destruction unraveled the whole tale.

What were the subtexts of this venerable tale?

The scientific tale of love begins innocently enough, with voles.

This is a tale that wring the heart.

To understand this tale, we have to start with an apparent mystery.

Not that the John Lewis tale has been an unbroken idyll.

Japan offers a cautionary tale on the risks of infrastructure-based stimulus.

Its struggle against insolvency is a cautionary tale in the era of credit derivatives.

This is a more significant anecdote than any tale of flying spittle.

He spun this fancy tale about how this beautiful maiden saved his life, but it was all bunkum.

The feast remembers the Biblical tale in which Jesus was taken to the temple to be circumcised.

He's the gallant knight of fairy tale and myth but still has the mischievous nature of youth.

By William Gibson. This tale of the near future features a Zen-like assassin, among other cool characters.

Anyone who has ever pumped their own gas downwind of the tank knows the tell-tale smell of fuel.

Far from being merely a classic detective tale, The Moonstone is a novel of serious criticism, conveying its meaning through unconventional characters and historical allusion.

The huge red doors slid open and a hunky fireman with shaved head listened to my tale and said he'd ask his boss.

The first regular Saturday matinee was a Christmas Day, 1931, performance of Humperdinck's 19th-century opera Hansel and Gretel, based on the fairy tale of the same name.

There, she must figure out what’s actually going on and do her bit to help the townspeople return to their fairy-tale reality.

As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree.

Its first part staged the well-known fairy-tale story: a girl walks along a stream, happens across a frog, kisses it, and the ugly frog is miraculously transformed into a beautiful young man.

Obama's is not the old-fashioned, Clintonesque story of the small town kid who made good, nor is he that other old-fashioned tale, of the young lion from a Kennedy or Bush political dynasty.

I always deceive myself, strong say you go quickly, turn me, but I see the sky reminiscent of the love rain, don't cry that it is just a fairy tale, but our heart is too iron.

Now the second level brings to the surface the element of subversion that has to be entailed in this same fairy tale resolution of a conflict that can't otherwise be resolved.

What could have turned into a silly story, bordering on wacky, is actually a touching tale about a man who needs to confront his own life and needs other people around to help him.

"Though I have little learning or literary talent, what does it matter if I tell a tale in rustic language to leave a record of all those lovely girls. This should divert readers too and help distract them from their cares. "

According to a folk tale, when the old fisherman first got Zhang Fei's head in his net, he threw it back into the river. Uncanny as this may sound, it is said that the head stays where it is after landing in the water, refusing to drift downstream.