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

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

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 Pisan, Christin? de

Let us refrain from this subject, remembering how grave and learned theologians, earnest opponents of Predestinarianism, have been reduced to the extreme of perplexity when confronted with the ensample of Pharaoh.

From Sword and Gown A Novel by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

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 Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)