There are plenty of precedents, and a fatal fulness of exemplars.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
He would have been able in this story to present three exemplars of the domestic virtues, telling how they went away to the seaside together, and returned together to their castle among tall trees in October compelling the admiration of the entire countryside.
"Muslin"
George Moore
Therefore, had the historian adduced those two cases-these good exemplars of the performers at Salem-perhaps he would have been asked who trained the isolated performers twenty and thirty years before a necromantic seminary had been founded, at which the arts of magic, necromancy, and Spiritualism could be taught and learned.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam