Confusing as these cross-currents and revulsions may prove in the field where mechanism is more or less at home, in the field of material operations, they are nothing to the primeval chaos that still broods over the other hemisphere, over the mental phase of existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

When mention is made of Lydia and Phrygia
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The man is more or less a man-god, more or less a priest, more or less a controller of cosmic processes, but is still a titular king.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang

Every man is more or less a prophet at certain points in his life.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

In fact, I could have valued any picture of the life and character I knew only as it put me in mind of life and character as these had shown themselves to me in his books.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

[Page 50] stands, it may be truly said, that all protoplasm is proteinaceous, or, as the white, or albumen, of an egg is one of the commonest examples of a nearly pure proteine matter, we may say that all living matter is more or less albuminoid.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

And if we use this term with such caution as may properly arise out of our comparative ignorance of the things for which it stands, it may be truly said, that all protoplasm is proteinaceous, or, as the white, or albumen, of an egg is one of the commonest examples of a nearly pure proteine matter, we may say that all living matter is more or less albuminoid.
— from Autobiography and Selected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

In all cases numerical details have been given as fully as is consistent with the limits of the work; and it may be right to state that a considerable number of the analyses contained in it have been made in my own laboratory, and that even when I have preferred to quote the results of other chemists, they have not unfrequently been confirmed by my own experiments.
— from Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson

But I've something to do now which is more in my own line, and I need not trouble you any more.”
— from Beyond the City by Arthur Conan Doyle

A friend means one who is at one with me in matters of life and death.
— from Aaron's Rod by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The whole population of the royal borough was in the streets that lovely summer day, and made their loyalty known in the usual way; but they did not forget to keep a sharp lookout for the man who had come from the war, for the man who had so lately fought in their battles; and as the cheers died away after the royal carriage had passed out of sight, they were renewed with deafening insistence as each voice strained to make its message of love and esteem reach the ears of one who with his own eyes had seen the enemy.
— from General Gatacre The Story of the Life and Services of Sir William Forbes Gatacre, K.C.B., D.S.O., 1843-1906 by Gatacre, Beatrix Wickens Davey, Lady