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
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
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
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
The viij day tok Jhesu hys name, That saved mankynd fro syn and shame, And circumsysed was for no blame, But for ensample of meknesse.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
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