ensample
Example Sentences
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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
History showeth no ensample of a man so vile since the Emperor Alexander removed his shadow from before the tub of Diogenes.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford
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
He shall have the seeking for the Hesperides or the city of Atalanta, where still the golden age remains to be a model and ensample for us.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland
