“There’s got to be more or less dog eat dog in this game.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

He was crazily in love with me once; he was kind to me when no one else was kind; he treated me like a lady; while other men, who by way of being my friends, were insulting me, more or less directly, every day.
— from For the Cause by Stanley John Weyman

During his years of wandering he had led the maddest of lives, dividing each day between low debauchery and religious excitement, between gross sensual indulgence and solemn intercourse with the Deity.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

I knew the place by reputation: a fashionable, more or less disreputable eating, drinking and dancing restaurant, where money and alcholite flowed freely.
— from Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings