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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin
The moral of the old tale is clear—that all virtue without charity is nothing worth; and that of virtue without charity, the Stoic's cold renunciation is the chief type and ensample.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
Neither stripes nor teachinges in tyme could conuert, wherefore an ensample let me to you be, And all that be present, nowe praye you for me.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by John Awdeley
To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
