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

To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

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

History showeth no ensample of a man so vile since the Emperor Alexander removed his shadow from before the tub of Diogenes.'

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox

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