The plumage generally is white, the feathers are thin compared with the swan goose or most aquatick fouls and has but little or no down on the body.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But little or no damage was done to private property, and General Slocum, with my approval, spared several mills, and many thousands of bales of cotton, taking what he knew to be worthless bonds, that the cotton should not be used for the Confederacy.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Knowledge Having noted that Chinese education was mainly literary, and why it was so, it is easy to see that there would be little or no demand for the kind of knowledge classified in the West under the head of science.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

At that time the subject of slavery caused but little or no disturbance to the public mind.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Their color, too, was a bit lighter, owing, no doubt, to the fact that much of their lives is spent within the shadow of the world that hangs forever above their country.
— from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is obvious that there could be little or no demand for education, because, before education is demanded, its value must be perceived.
— from Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry

It is doubtful now whether this stupendous superstition has reached its grand climacteric, and there can be little or no dispute that it is destined to play a prominent part in the history of mankind for many years to come.
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Whoever wished to, could take shares in the venture; there would be little or no difficulty in finding men to go and do the actual work of digging for the gold.”
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester

Thus, if a small quantity of any calcarious matter be reduced to a fine powder and thrown into spirit of vitriol, it is attacked by this acid with a brisk effervescence; but little or no dissolution ensues.
— from Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances by Joseph Black

] There can be little or no dispute that the English language in its completeness presents a range too ample and appliances too subtle for the needs of the great majority of those who profess to speak it.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We have no means of exhibiting with similar accuracy the relative consumption of Continental Europe in the latter as compared with the former part of these last ten years, but it is quite reasonable to assume that the increase, where there has been little or no duty, must have gone on more rapidly than it has done here, under the restraining force of a duty of 800 to 900 per cent.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

“Tell it me in as few words as possible, but leave out no detail which will make me understand it fully.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton