interspace

Example Sentences

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I have collected a handful of feeble relics—but I fear the small desert will too cruelly interspace them.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

In some places, beds of coal or slate alternate with layers of the lime rock; in others, the interspace is clay and sand.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

The species in which the upper borders of the orbits approximate could be separated from those in which the frontal interspace is wider.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

In all of these characters the southern sample shows trends towards the southern subspecies, deppei, which has fewer ventrals, fewer scales in the first interspace, and more dorsal body-blotches.

From A Taxonomic Study of the Middle American Snake, Pituophis deppei by Duellman, William E.

The topmost boundary of the interspace is formed by the lowermost arch, and its lowermost boundary by the topmost straight ridge.

From Finger Prints by Galton, Francis, Sir