[Constitutions of Legislatures of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.]
— from The British North America Act, 1867 by Anonymous

From Marion herself, meanwhile, he could obtain little or no satisfaction.
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne

After all her striving she found herself back at the point whence she had started; she had accomplished the circle of life, or nearly so.
— from Celibates by George Moore

About as different as possible—at the extreme antipodes of unresemblance—were their two visitors of this day,—this small little fairy, nervous, timid, and doubtful, fatherless, homeless, and without so much as a name, and that assured and commanding old lady, owning no superior, and as secure of her own position and authority as any {v.2-149} reigning monarch.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

In 1747, Euler, struck by the fact that the human eye is an achromatic combination of lenses, or nearly so, imagined that it might be possible to destroy colour by employing compound object-glasses, such as two lenses with an intermediate space filled with water.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

There is a skeleton formed in the body of each of them, like a cup divided by a number of radiating partitions towards the outside; and that cup is formed of carbonate of lime, only not stained red, as in the case of the red coral.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

About as different as possible—at the extreme antipodes of unresemblance—were their two visitors of this day,—this small little fairy, nervous, timid, and doubtful, fatherless, homeless, and without so much as a name, and that assured and commanding old lady, owning no superior, and as secure of her own position and authority as any {149} reigning monarch.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Vol. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It implies a combination of littleness of nature, small self-conceit, readiness to take offence, determination in little things to have one's own way, and general impracticability.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

Craggs, who seemed to be represented by [24] Snitchey, and to be conscious of little or no separate existence or personal individuality, offered a remark of his own in this place.
— from The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens