interspace

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These scales are generally small, and placed symmetrically in close whorls, in an imbricated order, with each scale corresponding to the interspace between two scales in the whorls above and below.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

I have but to shut my eyes, and I see it after this long interspace of years, definite in every detail.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

For indeed that short interspace of time shines out in my remembrance like a thick thread of gold in a woof of homespun.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Whenever a favourable interspace of this character occurred, the dragoons endeavoured to form and use the advantage it presented for effecting a charge.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by De Quincey, Thomas

Ah! the flowers cleave apart And their sweet fills the tender interspace; Ah! the leaves grown thereof were things to kiss Ere their fine gold was tarnished at the heart.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles