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
Now we and other kings of might, By his ensample taught aright, The lands of every region tread That justice may increase and spread.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
And he was an ensample to young men which should be fain, by hard swinking, to stuff their pates with as much high learning and occult lore as he had under his own bonnet.
From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
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
One need not consider the wild unwisdom of it; but in the astounding courage and endurance of it, I hold there is lesson and ensample for the bravest man in British history.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
