Que les yeux, privés de guides sûrs, donnent contre les murs, où le nez aplati reconnaît sa bévue.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

It is because there are other groups above these geographically determined ones, whose contours are less clearly marked: they have no fixed frontiers, but include all sorts of more or less neighbouring and related tribes.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

There is always more or less noise and row in a night-sail, going aground, splashing, and boosting in the water to get off, shouting and chorusing and tramping on deck, and when the thermometer is as low as 520 these night-baths are not very welcome when followed by exposure to keen wind, in a cotton shirt.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

Here Dummie paused, and seemed to recall in imagination the scene he had witnessed; but over the mind of Long Ned a ray of light broke slowly.
— from Paul Clifford — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The presence of a fold so originating would often divert the river to a course more or less nearly at right angles to its original direction.
— from The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

A fox, like a hare, or any other hunted animal for that matter, if forced beyond the limit of his beat, is more or less nonplussed, and runs in an aimless manner.
— from Foxhunting on the Lakeland Fells by Richard Clapham

Concede that it should not debate a philosophical question with the aim of the thinker, nor a legal question as if the main purpose were to settle a matter of law; nor a religious question with the purposeful finality of the theologian, or the didactic eloquence of the pulpit.
— from How to See a Play by Richard Burton

The Italian triumphal arch, for which the chancel arch was cut, and the symmetry of the church for ever dislocated, is to the memory of one Richard Gervaise, 1563, son of a mercer and sheriff of London, who may have been a business partner or relative of the Lawrences; the brasses of Sir Henry and Lady Christina Waver, 1460, have been stolen from the pavement, where many other Lawrence names are recorded.
— from A road-book to old Chelsea by G. B. (Grace Benedicta) Stuart