Within a while the hostel master, Sir Kondo came with his cane and they quietly walked out of the hostel claiming to be unfloggable.

Dr. Kober has always been a great detailist without being small or petty, a particularist without being narrow or prejudiced.

Quite apart from all the pietistic [translating pietistischen] and mystical writers … we also encounter clear-sighted men averse to the fantastic who use this very inexplicability of the phenomena of dreams in their endeavours to support their religious belief in the existence and intervention of superhuman powers.

I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;