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

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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

Angelo thought a moment and answered, humbly, "I give them an ensample of holiness."

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

For this cause will I tell you a certain story, even as it was told to me, for a fair ensample.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

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 Whyte, Alexander