“Ficinus suchte, wie er sich in der Zueignungsschrift seiner Vision ausdrückt, im Platon allenthalben arcana cœlestia : und da er sie in seinem Kopfe mitbrachte, so konnte es ihm nicht sauer werden, etwas zu finden, was freilich jedem andern verborgen bleiben muss.”
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

so mühsam an der Schale knacken, entschlüpft ihnen nicht selten der Kern.
— from The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

The Romanies is gittin' too fond by half o' the Gorgios, and will soon be jist like mumply Gorgios themselves, speckable and silly; but Gorgio or Gorgie, she was the only one on 'em ever I liked, was Winnie Wynne; and when she turned round on me like that , with them kind eyes o' hern (such kind eyes I never seed afore) lookin' like that at me (and I know'd she was under a cuss)—I tell you,' she said, still addressing the beer, 'that it's made me fret ever since—that's what it's done!'
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton