ensample
Example Sentences
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Arguing that "mankind cannot be made good under compulsion," he quoted against Prohibition Chaucer's reference to the village parson: To drawen folk to heven by fairnesse By good ensample, this way his bisy-nesse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Angelo thought a moment and answered, humbly, "I give them an ensample of holiness."
From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke
Did not Paul's exhortation to Timothy look toward this as well, when he besought him to "be an ensample in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity"?
From Training the Teacher by A. F. Schauffler
He shall have the seeking for the Hesperides or the city of Atalanta, where still the golden age remains to be a model and ensample for us.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford
To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
