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

Schoolmasters, except religious and elementary, they may cease to be, perhaps; the pattern and ensample of purity and righteousness they will always remain.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)

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.

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

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