m. Leaves once or twice pinnate; the leaflets with margins more or less serrate or notched.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

The top is embellished by a ledge, on which artistic pottery is meant to stand, but where at this present moment repose a microscope, a lamp, very grimy and full of dreadful-looking oil that no one may touch, several dusty piles of lectures and reports of divers societies, and on the plain space below are at least five paper bandboxes, containing old and dilapidated hats, all more or less suggestive of Noah’s ark and scarecrows; yet one and all far too precious to give away, and which no one dare touch, on pain of instant death.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

This was the first night that the enemy's artillery was more or less silent, owing no doubt to the fact that our artillery was gas shelling their batteries.
— from The History of the 7th Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders by Norman MacLeod

But I have said that the mass is more or less spongy or nodular, and, notwithstanding the high heat, these nodules do not perfectly incorporate with their neighbours: what then? You would say that the process of rolling must draw the nodules into fibres—it does so; and here is a mass acted upon by dilute sulphuric acid, which exhibits in a striking manner this fibrous structure.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

Some found the truths after weeks and months of lonely sorrow; others never found them.
— from Memories and Studies by William James

It compasses and calls forth the entire human spirit, whereas any other kind of art, being more or less small or narrow, compasses and calls forth only part of the human spirit.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin