set example

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Night and day He set example to His followers.

From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.

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 Mims, Edwin

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

We should set example in these respects, not follow in the selfish and vulgar greed for territory which Europe has inherited from mediaeval times.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie

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 Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir