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
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
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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin
The zephyrs waft thy fragrance, and it takes My heart, and me, his master, he forsakes; Careless of me he pants and leaps to thee, And thee his pattern and ensample makes!
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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
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