Where at one time might be seen waving fields of rye-grass, cocksfoot, and clovers, are now growing the unsightly and undesirable tussocks, and the low-lying fields are covered in many cases with what is commonly called water-couch or swamp grass.

The visitors rallied again though and struck decisively 16 minutes from time when Yaya Toure headed in the winner.

And now had Thalaba Perform’d his last ablutions, and he stood And gaz’d upon the little boat […] Till, from the glitterance of the sunny main, He turn’d his aching eyes, And then upon the beach he laid him down, And watch’d the rising tide.

Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English.