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)

The viij day tok Jhesu hys name, That saved mankynd fro syn and shame, And circumsysed was for no blame, But for ensample of meknesse.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

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

Schoolmasters, except religious and elementary, they may cease to be, perhaps; the pattern and ensample of purity and righteousness they will always remain.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)