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

And he was an ensample to young men which should be fain, by hard swinking, to stuff their pates with as much high learning and occult lore as he had under his own bonnet.

From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)

Soldier, administrator, and leader of men, he trod "the perfect ways of honour," and by his private as much as by his public life made himself a shining ensample for all time.

From John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub by Cholmeley, R. E.

Veriliest, I wis not what he had done so much worser than other men, that so awesome an ensample should be made of him.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

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