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
His memory shall continue to be praised and blessed, for he was beloved of God, an ensample to us all, and his own stern judge.
From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by J. P. Arthur
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
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
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
