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

The zephyrs waft thy fragrance, and it takes My heart, and me, his master, he forsakes; Careless of me he pants and leaps to thee, And thee his pattern and ensample makes!

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

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)

Soldier, administrator, and leader of men, he trod "the perfect ways of honour," and by his private as much as by his public life made himself a shining ensample for all time.

From John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub by Cholmeley, R. E.

Now we and other kings of might, By his ensample taught aright, The lands of every region tread That justice may increase and spread.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)