interspace

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In fresh specimens, the orange ring at the top of the peduncle, and the broad purplish interspace between the carina and other valves, are characteristic.

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

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

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)

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.

Smith half led, half carried his charge up to the road and then left him to go and back the car over the three hundred-odd yards of the interspace.

From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis