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

Canterbury Tales": "'This noble ensample unto his scheep he gaf That first he wroughte and after that he taughte.'

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.

The English infantryman stands for all ages as the ensample of heroic patience, which words or cartoon fail utterly to convey.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Rose, Geoffrey Keith

In the meantime Wenceslaus, evidently well pleased with himself, continued to set his people a godly ensample.

From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville

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