This probably isn't the answer you are looking for, but they bathed more than the common people of their era and slightly less than people of today.
Hope this helps even a little.
A: direct object. In a sentence like this, you need to re-arrange it to: I saw a "sprout" in the pot soon after I planted the seeds. I is the subject, saw is the predicate, sprout is the direct object.
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