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
Canterbury Tales": "'This noble ensample unto his scheep he gaf That first he wroughte and after that he taughte.'
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.
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 Schauffler, A. F.
She was a stumbling-stone, or an ensample, according to the temper and disposition and character of her contemporaries, and she is the same to-day.
From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Whyte, Alexander
But we vse ye ensample ād likenesse to strength the faith of the weake.
