But the Good Samaritan fables, rather than the harsher Darwinian tales, with their callous hawks and ambitious donkeys, often attract readers today.

What we saw, through rippling static, was a harsh tale of rapid deterioration.

Former detainees have given disparate accounts of their treatment, with the harshest tales, predictably, emerging from the isolation cells.

The saga of the Farmington Canal serves as a reminder that history more often than not has a harsh tale to tell.

A three-course candlelit affair of salad, salmon, potato casserole, grilled vegetables and crumble was washed down with harsh Canadian tales of the great outdoors.

Brecht drew on a 1925 German translation of that play for his 1944 "Caucasian Chalk Circle," a harsh tale of what war, greed, poverty and fear do to people.

This is the harsh tale of an unloved man nicknamed by his class "the Hitler of the lower fifth" and "the Crock."

Stony rebel graves along the hillsides, fluttering with the green flags of martyrdom, tell their own harsh tale.

The harsh tale of an abusive relationship between a man and his cat - who steals his women and drugs, kills his mobster boss, and altogether terrorizes him.

An hour, an actor, a harsh tale told quietly.