set example
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I must not," answered the Master of Ravenswood, "challenge the freedom of speech in which I have set example.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
From which springs a new idea: "Why all France has not one federation and universal oath of brotherhood once for all?" other places than Paris having first set example or federation.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Night and day He set example to His followers.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
And so to set example in the eyes Of Fancy's lads, and give a broadish hint to them, All his cups were of such ample size That he got into them.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
King Arthur, to set example to his knights, first essayed, and pulled at it eagerly, but the sword would not out.
From A Biography of Sidney Lanier by Edwin Mims
