Prys , sb. price, prize, value, excellence, high esteem, C, C2, PP; pris , S, S2, PP; price , WA, S2; pryce , Prompt.—AF. pris ; Lat. prĕtium , see BH, § 32.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

“Yet you do not care to avail yourself of the privilege, Prince,” said Speránski, indicating by a smile that he wished to finish amiably an argument which was embarrassing for his companion.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Pease , v. to become peaceable; peaste , pt. s. , S3.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

"It is a dull place, Phoebe," she said, "though it doesn't do to say so to my dear old husband.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

On my asking if there was any particular part she should like me to read, she answered— ‘Well, Miss Grey, if it’s all the same to you, I should like to hear that chapter in the First Epistle of St. John, that says, “God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

And Hunger shall stalk direful; and Wrath and Suspicion, whetted to the Preternatural pitch, shall stalk;—as those other preternatural 'shapes of Gods in their wrathfulness' were discerned stalking, 'in glare and gloom of that fire-ocean,' when Troy Town fell!— H2 anchor Chapter 3.2.III.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

p. , S3; pletede , pt. s. , S2. Ple , sb. plea, W; see Plaid .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

As surely, however, as the little man, in his desire to spy out the nakedness of the land, strayed off the public path, so surely a gray figure, seeming to spring from out the blue, would come fiercely, silently driving down on him; and he would turn and run for his life, amid the uproarious jeers of any of the farm-hands who were witness to the encounter.
— from Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

Placenta , properly signifies sugar cake; but in this section it is used to signify a spongy piece of flesh resembling a cake, full of veins and arteries, and is made to receive a mother's blood appointed for the infant's nourishment in the womb.
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

"I should have thought you'd have preferred postage-stamps," she said, gazing out of the window at a kiln that was blackening all the sky.
— from The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Suriname Government Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Suriname conventional short form: Suriname local long form: Republiek Suriname local short form: Suriname former: Netherlands Guiana, Dutch Guiana Government type: constitutional democracy Capital: Paramaribo Administrative divisions: 10 districts (distrikten, singular - distrikt); Brokopondo, Commewijne, Coronie, Marowijne, Nickerie, Para, Paramaribo, Saramacca, Sipaliwini, Wanica Independence: 25 November 1975 (from Netherlands) National holiday: Independence Day, 25 November (1975) Constitution: ratified 30 September 1987
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Corp'rate bodies then shall cease, They're destruction to our peace; Party spirit shall no more Tyrannize with lawless pow'r.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould