ensample

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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 Van Dyke, Henry

Spenser has among other passages And of fair Britomart ensample take, That was as true in love as turtle to her make.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

One need not consider the wild unwisdom of it; but in the astounding courage and endurance of it, I hold there is lesson and ensample for the bravest man in British history.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

Bernier told this ensample that teacheth so goodly matter, and of it he made what he might.

From Tales from the Old French by Various