Though the first Count Robert is known chiefly as a rather rough soldier, he was a large benefactor to the Church, founding the abbey of which, as usual, the church remains, and but little else.
— from Normandy by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

I think I can raise a bicycle lamp each, and there is a good moon.
— from The Pothunters by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

At the other end of the bank, the slope suddenly became less steep, and here the ledges ceased rather abruptly; but little embankments only a foot or two in length were still present.
— from The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms With Observations on Their Habits by Charles Darwin