It is true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, might have run "amok" against society; but I preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it being the desperate party.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

who am alone From all Eternitie, for none I know Second to mee or like, equal much less.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

In this way, more or less explicit method is gradually built up.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire in this wynter season.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Seem I to thee sufficiently possessed Of happiness, or not? who am alone From all eternity; for none I know Second to me or like, equal much less.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

On the other hand, a better knowledge of and acquaintance with the means of linguistic expression makes the language itself much more significant to one who not only knows how it is used but uses it himself.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Peculiar boggy, “tumor-like” masses of localized edema may be present, which were considered by the earlier writers (Lind) to be one of the typical lesions of this condition.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

I made one last effort; my limbs stiffened, my mouth opened to scream, but a hand closed it, a hand which I felt on my lips, on my skin ... a hand that smelt of death.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

They are usually rather sparingly and more or less evenly marked with small spots, but sometimes these spots are concentrated about the larger end.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

In exchange for this he will be handed a more or less elaborate menu card, which will also contain the list of music {84} and a sketch showing the positions of the guests’ seats at the tables.
— from Manners for Men by Mrs. Humphry

More or less elaborate methods of combining yarns are occasionally adopted, but the reader is advised to consult the above-mentioned work on Cordage and similar literature for detailed information.
— from The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth by Thomas Woodhouse

There are other occasions, less momentous, in which one may make more of himself than under ordinary circumstances he would think it proper to do; when he may talk about himself, and tell his own experiences, in fact, indulge in a more or less egotistic monologue without fear or reproach.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

They might be supplemented by a more or less extensive museum of religious curiosities, beginning with the fetiches of savage tribes and extending down to the present day.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

That they were Greeks, not Jews, and more or less educated, may be safely inferred from the fact that they all write in Greek, and one of them at least seems to be acquainted with the Alexandrian school of philosophy.
— from The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

Its first number was largely written, set up and printed by its founder, John Miller Murphy, and now, almost forty-three years later, it is his proud boast that it has never missed an issue, has never changed its name and that not a single one of its weekly issues has failed to have more or less editorial matter from his pen.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

Nevertheless, it is inevitable that, during a period more or less extended, material progress will be accompanied by numerous legal enactments such as a perfect state would dispense with, and possibly the end of all of them will not have been reached even in a century’s time.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell