Fabledom

The animals of all fabledom are absessed by human souls. They think man-thoughts, have man-motives, and do man-deeds.

It begins with a paragraph in the now familiar style: "Incola sum Britanniae," and so forth; but almost immediately Britain is left for fabledom, and we have the Wolf and the Lamb, then the names of Latin poets, then Roman camps, another fable, and so on.

American readers will meet many fabulous people, including the bold and resourceful Petit Jean, a probable ancestor of our own Paul Bunyon. Here are all the best ingredients of fabledom, the crafty Sultan who almost — but not quite — outwits Petit Jean; the wicked ...

Yet Both has not entirely romanticized Italy into fabledom. He clearly has no time for mythological adventures: no Pan or Narcissus peeks out of the undergrowth.

In a time of violent religious excitement the transference was easy from fabledom, Teutonic barbarism, &c., to Christian convents.

For the persnickety, spell the month J-u-l-r-y, but the rule about "r" months and oysters has happily passed into fabledom and can be ignored.

Certainly, it would be nice to get it perfect the first time, but that's really the stuff of fabledom.

That the Seeds were able to parlay their distinctly limited talents as writers, singers and musicians into a rather long and successful career is one of the more miraculous stories in rock fabledom.