The guards of the Legion galloped about at random; the people climbed upon the houses, the terraces, the shoulders of the Colossuses, and the masts of the ships.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
Whoever among the Grenadiers was burdened with a wife, had a house to himself; of the other Colossuses, as many as four lodged with one landlord, who had to wait upon and provide food for them, for which he only received some stacks of wood.
"Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II."
Gustav Freytag