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
For to make a lawe for to punisshe eny offender except it were more fit to giue other men an ensample to beware to committe suche like offence, whate shuld yt auayle.
From A Supplication for the Beggars by Simon Fish
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
I too have sinned and done foolishly, and set evil ensample.
From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin
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
