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
The word "ensample" means type, or figure, or illustration.
From And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by J. Wilbur Chapman
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 Alexander Whyte
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
