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

The viij day tok Jhesu hys name, That saved mankynd fro syn and shame, And circumsysed was for no blame, But for ensample of meknesse.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

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 Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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

The English infantryman stands for all ages as the ensample of heroic patience, which words or cartoon fail utterly to convey.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Rose, Geoffrey Keith