Nyce , adj. foolish, C2, C3, PP; nic- PP, C2; nise , PP; nyse , S2; nyss , S3.—OF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

[1] A sensitive and open man, a former chevalier , confided [Pg 113] to me this evening (in the depth of our craft buffeted by a high sea on the Lago di Garda [2] ) the history of his loves, which I in my turn shall not confide to the public.
— from On Love by Stendhal

sipii n acronym for CPA, Certified Public Accountant.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Per capita consumption of coffee in Holland up to the outbreak of the war was as follows: Coffee Consumption Per Capita in Holland Year Pounds Year Pounds 1847–56 9.6 1907 14.9 1857–66 7.1 1908 14.3 1867–76 13.3 1909 16.7 1877–86 16.7 1910 15.7 1887–96 12.8 1911 15.8 1897–1906 16.7 1912 12.3 1906 17.2 1913 18.8 Other Countries of Europe.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[139] It met so little resistance that, according to an expression of Gruppe, [140] "a time came when, aside from certain classical philologists, to whom Vedic studies were unknown, all the mythologists had adopted the principles of Max Müller or Kuhn as their point of departure."
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

At the same time, there is a further change: capitalist production gradually takes over even the trades which provided additional employment to an agricultural people; thus it deprives the peasants of their resources by degrees, so that the rural population can afford to buy fewer and fewer industrial products.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

104 Finding what promised to afford them a fairly comfortable camping place for the night, they commenced to eat the food that their friends in the French camp had so kindly provided.
— from The Boy Scouts Afoot in France; or, With the Red Cross Corps at the Marne by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

Yesterday I attended morning service in St. Andrew's, a fine colonial cathedral, prettily situated on a broad grass lawn among clumps of trees near the sea.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

His face consisted of a well-formed snub nose, a pair of introspective gray eyes, a rather wide, thin-lipped mouth that tended to smile even when relaxed, a high, smooth forehead, and a firm cleft chin, plus the rest of the normal equipment that normally goes to make up a face.
— from What The Left Hand Was Doing by Randall Garrett

In one corner you beheld a collection of crushed and flattened cigars, coiled pocket-handkerchiefs, shirts which had been turned to do double duty, and cravats that had reached a third edition; while a sordid array of old boots stood gaping in another angle of the room among aged socks worn into lace.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

“ The Censure of the Rota upon Mr Milton’s book, entitled ‘The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth,’ &c. Printed at London by Paul Giddy, Printer to the Rota, at the sign of the Windmill , in Turn-again Lane.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

ing or neglecting to prosecute for favor, enmity, or profit, for extorting money, and for confiscating church property for the offence of a clerk—but these provisions, although they called forth the earnest protest of Bernard Gui, only amounted to a declaration of what was desirable, and were of no practical effect.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea