It is rather the more or less voluntary emergence of a second or subliminal personality or consciousness of the medium; or, if we 83 admit the spiritualistic hypothesis, his occupation, his “psychic invasion,” as Myers calls it, by forces from another world.
— from Our Eternity by Maurice Maeterlinck

In Europe these ancient enactments against the importation of infection are still more or less vexatiously enforced in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey; and in a modified form at Malta and some of the French and Italian ports.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

But the discrepancy is accounted for by the fact that about two inches above its lower border the diaphragm is attached to the ribs so that only a partial displacement is possible, which shows the futility of the more or less violent effort involved in pure diaphragmatic or abdominal breathing.
— from The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation by Frank E. (Frank Ebenezer) Miller

In a word, we see the whole circle of contemporary ideas more or less vividly expressed in it.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

If you will read the copyright essay, you will discover that judge Douglas himself says a controversy between the American Colonies and the Government of Great Britain began on the slavery question in 1699, and continued from that time until the Revolution; and, while he did not say so, we all know that it has continued with more or less violence ever since the Revolution.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Abraham Lincoln

It is the common language throughout the northeastern provinces, especially Honan, Shantung, and Nganhwui, though presenting more or less variations even in them from the standard of the court and capital.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

In the course of its historical development the middle class necessarily develops its contradictory character, which on its first appearance is more or less veiled, existing only in a latent form.
— from The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Max Beer

It began with a burst of very angry and genuine tears, and this storm passed through a gamut of more or less varying emotions until it subsided into a hysterical half-sobbing, half-gasping wail which resembled the cry of the helpless child who had been tyrannized over.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr