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Origin of interspace
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at inter-, space
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In desperation she leapt across the widening interspace, and fell headlong and bruised beside him.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
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 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.
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
It is in the upper part of the interspace which separates these latter from the brachialis anticus that the deltoid insinuates itself to proceed to its insertion into the humerus.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
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