This process of accommodation was carried out in after ages by followers who, made of less ethereal stuff than their masters, were for that reason the better fitted to mediate between them and the common herd.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Even the skeletons of fishes are found more or less entire, so that the general forms of their bodies can, for the most part, be ascertained, and usually, at least, their generic and specific characters are determinable, as these are mostly drawn from their solid parts.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams

And the thought of that—though he hardly realised its full import—actually did send him on tip-toe for a glance that more or less effectually set the question at rest.
— from The Return by Walter De la Mare

That feeling had been with him, more or less, ever since the last evening of October, the evening she came back from her summer—grown-up.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

It has a charge of electricity of more or less strength, and it has a retaining capacity of more or less endurance, so that to touch it as the ages pass, is to receive a spark of life.
— from The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

How long I wandered in that maze of streets I cannot say, but at last I came upon an open space, and, finding it more or less empty, stopped to take my bearings.
— from The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

Joscelyn: Silliness in stories is more or less excusable, since they are not even supposed to be believed.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

They are still, however, more or less entirely subservient to digestion.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

The inhabitants have dug canals and dikes, after the manner of Lower Egypt, so that part of the country is drained and cultivated, and the rest is navigable.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

I never kilt a man in my life lessen hit wus t' save my own life er some tuther body's life—I kilt 'em a fighten'—I never laywayed—thet's 'bout all I got t' say on th' subject—damn nigh enough, hain't hit?"
— from The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald