Anyhow," he continued, more amiably, "I see no reason why you should be bothered with other people's nuisances."
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The English, who are accustomed to them from childhood, and often suffer from their petty depredations, consider them as mere nuisances; but I have been very much struck with their peculiarities.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
It was only last winter, in a cottage not a hundred yards from where I am writing, that milk was set at night for piskies, who had been knocking on walls and generally making nuisances of themselves.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz