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

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)

For wi� ensample may we se, �t al �is world is but as �e se �t bremli bari� on banke wi� bale, And grete fischis etin �erin �e smale.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But we vse ye ensample ād likenesse to strength the faith of the   weake.

From The prophete Ionas with an introduccion before teachinge to vnderstonde him and the right vse also of all the scripture/ and why it was written/ and what is therin to be sought/ and shewenge wherewith the scripture is locked vpp that he which readeth it/ can not vnderstonde it/ though he studie therin neuer so moch: and agayne with what keyes it is so opened/ that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man/ from the true sense and vnderstondynge therof. by Tyndale, William

For this cause will I tell you a certain story, even as it was told to me, for a fair ensample.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene