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
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
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 Awdeley, John
In the meantime Wenceslaus, evidently well pleased with himself, continued to set his people a godly ensample.
From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville
For this cause will I tell you a certain story, even as it was told to me, for a fair ensample.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
