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

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)

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 Whyte, Alexander

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

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