Whether Kami no Michi is wholly the product of Japanese soil, or whether its rudimentary ideas were imported from the neighboring Asian continent and more or less allied to the primitive Chinese religion, is still an open question.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

667 Petronius a courtier and man of letters of the time of Nero.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Muswirti usáhay pud ang ákung pangisdà, Sometimes I turn out lucky in my fishing. swirtiswirti a chancy, a matter of luck.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

THE CRIPPLE I SHATOV WAS NOT PERVERSE but acted on my note, and called at midday on Lizaveta Nikolaevna.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Were there no other reasons which urge us to consider the case of the Japanese and the oriental peoples in a category different from that of the European immigrant, this fact, that they are bound to live in the American community a more or less isolated life, would impel us to do so.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

That motive in the case of these Indians is simply a belief that the plant itself is animated by a conscious and more or less powerful spirit, who must be propitiated before the people can safely partake of the fruits or roots which are supposed to be part of his body.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Mar. 6.8, et al. Πῆχυς, εως, ὁ, pr. cubitus, the forearm; hence, a cubit, a measure of length, equal to the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the little finger, usually considered as equivalent to a foot and a half, or 17 inches and a half, Jno. 21.8.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Of all its ancient chivalry and might Our little island is forsaken quite: Some enemy hath stolen its crown of bay, And from its hills that voice hath passed away Which spake of Freedom: O come out of it, Come out of it, my Soul, thou art not fit For this vile traffic-house, where day by day
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

All commodities are more or less liable to variations of price, but some are much more so than others.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

All new laws, though penned with the greatest technical skill, and passed on the fullest and most mature deliberation, are considered as more or less obscure and equivocal, until their meaning be liquidated and ascertained by a series of particular discussions and adjudications.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Not one of these merrymakers but would face death without hesitation should the necessity arise; and in a community all more or less of one class there was bound to be scandal, with far less reason very often than in their own country, where wickedness could be hidden successfully....
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin

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— from My Cave Life in Vicksburg, with Letters of Trial and Travel by Mary Ann Webster Loughborough

In the triple host of article-makers, speech-makers, lay and clerical, and makers of laws, you find but few who can be trusted to stand up for the unalienable rights of men; who will never write,
— from Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

All new laws, though penned with the greatest technical skill, and passed on the fullest and most mature deliberation, are considered as more or less obscure and equivocal, until their meaning be liquidated and as
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

A complete and more or less regular segmentation leads to the formation of a single-walled blastosphere with a small segmentation cavity.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

We must conceive of work in wood and metal, of weaving, sewing and cooking, as methods of living and learning, not as distinct studies.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

My descriptions have related only to the male bird, whose beautiful forked tail is nine to ten inches long, and whose colors are clear and more or less intense.
— from Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

By the modes adopted for such disposal, and the relics found in the receptacles of the dead, we are enabled not only to understand something of these superstitions and beliefs, but also to judge of their culture status and to gain some knowledge of their arts, customs, and modes of life.
— from The Problem of the Ohio Mounds by Cyrus Thomas

And if Congress can properly allege, as motive for taking and cancelling a multitude of life-long claims to service, the preservation of the national existence, can a consideration of greater magnitude be imagined for any legislative act?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Where after coursing for a distance over a hard layer the stream comes to its edge and drops on a soft or easily eroded stratum, it will cut this latter bed away, and create a more or less characteristic waterfall.
— from Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler