[1004] “I see,” Luther himself wrote to Erfurt, “that monks are leaving in great numbers for no other reason than for their belly’s sake and for the freedom of the flesh.”
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Of the eighty holidays that lay behind him—all of which he had spent in going to see a sister who was married to a miller and lived in Gohlis— nine and thirty times it had rained, and forty-one times it had snowed.
— from The Elixir by Georg Ebers

When he came to Ephesus, he found the city friendly to him, and willing enough to support the Lacedæmonian cause; but it was in a weak and ill-managed condition, and in danger of falling into the Persian manners and losing its Greek nationality, because it was close to Lydia, [Pg 287] and the Persian generals generally made it their headquarters.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch