Preposition: of

• man: PICKTHAL: That, when Our revelations are recited unto him, he saith: Mere fables of the men of old.

• love: More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power.

Possessives

• child: Can you think of a famous children's fable about someone or something being different, being the odd-one-out?

Converse of object

• devise: Bankers, men of a more positive nature, devised a specious fable.

• write: He wrote a fantastic fable which he wanted to read to the rest of the class.

• tell: The poet Hesiod tells a fable of Zeus creating a race of bronze men from Ashes.

• know: Children write a play script based on a well known fable or story.

• illustrate: Sir John Tenniel, who was already famous for his cartoons in Punch, a comic for adults, illustrated the fable.

• create: Even using such broad strokes, Fridriksson could have created a more compelling fable.

Adjective modifier

• timeless: It's a timeless, paranoid fable that grabs at the emotions, negates the intellect, and reduces everything to absolutes.

• moral: We have even the same inset moral fable, in the form of the man of the hill's narrative.

• comic: The play also just misses the tone of comic fable that Williams intended to give it an air of innocence.

• ancient: Cosmos, according to the ancient fables of the Greeks, emerged from the uterine gulf of chaos.

• classic: A twist on classic monster fables, CURSED unleashes ancient omens into the modern world.

• Chinese: The story told in Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle is borrowed from an ancient Chinese fable and echoes the Judgment of Solomon.

Noun used with modifier

• animal: The feature-length ' Tale of the Fox ' , Starewicz ' best-known work, is a technically audacious, gleefully wicked medieval animal fable.

• beast: What else is this story, beside a beast fable?

• adult: A warning for the dehumanized Japanese society, the film has the feel of an adult fable.

• morality: The Soldier's Tale is a morality fable in which the Devil appears in different guises.

• morning: True Lies The Garden An early morning fable for the post-secular, post-everything generation.