Not of a fatal malady, I own; his cough misled you, and he has no scruples in Fabling to any extent.
"Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories"
Louisa M. Alcott
As parties of the rioters came up, she would parley and jest with them, and by alternate wit and humour, and blunder, and bravado, and flattery, and Fabling, divert their spirit of mischief, and forward them to distant enterprise.
"Tales & Novels, Vol. IX [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond]"
Maria Edgeworth
It confutes, according to the knight's own ideas: it alleges a few scattered facts in favour of astrological predictions, which may be picked up in that immensity of Fabling which disgraces history.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli