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

Spenser has among other passages And of fair Britomart ensample take, That was as true in love as turtle to her make.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

And he was an ensample to young men which should be fain, by hard swinking, to stuff their pates with as much high learning and occult lore as he had under his own bonnet.

From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)

To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

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