example (n.)
- admonishment
- admonition
- alarm
- archetype
- benchmark
- case
- caution
- caveat
- citation
- cite
- criterion
- demonstration
- document
- emblem
- embodiment
- exemplar
- exemplification
- explanation
- exponent
- hint
- illustration
- instance
- item
- lesson
- model
- monition
- moral
- name
- norm
- notice
- notification
- particular
- pattern
- prototype
- quotation
- quote
- reference
- representation
- representative
- sample
- specimen
- standard
- symbol
- taste
- taster
- threat
- tip-off
- type
- typification
- ultimatum
- warning
example (adv.)
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
And taste
The melancholy joy of evils past:
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell; and George the Third ["Treason!" cried the Speaker]—may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme!
Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.
Letters of Junius. Letter xii. To the Duke of Grafton.
I 'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing's a thief.
