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
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 Alexander Whyte
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 James J. Walsh
But if the mother is not prudent in all ways, what sort of an ensample is she, alas, to the daughters?
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
Our morning walk in his garden will serve as an ensample.
From The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec by Jean Newton McIlwraith
