Amang the trees, where humming bees, At buds and flowers were hinging, O, Auld Caledon drew out her drone, And to her pipe was singing, O: 'Twas Pibroch, Sang, Strathspeys, and Reels, She dirl'd them aff fu' clearly, O: When there cam' a yell o' foreign squeels, That dang her tapsalteerie, O. Their capon craws an' queer “ha, ha's,” They made our lugs grow eerie, O; The hungry bike did scrape and fyke,
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

A few sentimental women had sent him flowers of greater or less fragrance, with more or less grammatical expressions of admiration; then the dull drag of prison-time had begun, broken only by the daily visit of Paddy, and the more infrequent consultations with old Crookshanks.
— from McAllister and His Double by Arthur Cheney Train

It is made of liquid gold, etherealised and strengthened with secret drugs.
— from The Man in Black by Stanley John Weyman

Automobiles are not permitted in the park through the Ash Mountain or Lost Grove entrances after 9 p. m. or before 5 a. m., except Saturdays or days preceding holidays, when the closing hour for entry is 11 p. m. Trash.
— from Sequoia [California] National Park by United States. Department of the Interior

How different compared with the brazen boldness, the more or less graciously endured brutalities which are as a rule inseparable from matrimony.
— from The Confession of a Fool by August Strindberg

Other Coaches, more or less grandly escorted; Head Cup-bearers, Seneschals, Princes, Margraves:—but where is the King?
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

By about seven o’clock this provincial company had made a more or less graceful entry into the huge Anzy drawing-room, which Dinah, warned of the invasion, had lighted up, giving it all the lustre it was capable of by taking the holland covers off the handsome furniture, for she regarded this assembly as one of her great triumphs.
— from The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac

In many cases it is a definite structure, of simple form, representing the more or less globular embryonic shell before it began to elongate into its conical or spiral form.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

7. Does the management of local government excite as much interest among the citizens as it should?
— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James