wearies the doorkeeper by his importunity

If people must build such huge squares from sheer wantonness, why don't they build a balustrade across them as well?

And have they a highly popular panopticon there containing nothing but trees

A dray also went by; on the driver's seat, which was stuffed with straw, sat a man

daring as chamois in the mountains

the sky closed over him in pallid darkness

Gregor must now try to propitiate his father

With a kind of mulishness his father persisted in keeping his uniform on even in the house

she rushed in high dudgeon into the living room

'Yes, the Harrow', said the officer, 'a good name for it. The needles are set in like the teeth of a harrow and the whole thing works something like a harrow [...]'