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
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland
But if the mother is not prudent in all ways, what sort of an ensample is she, alas, to the daughters?
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Pisan, Christin? de
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.
But we vse ye ensample ād likenesse to strength the faith of the weake.
