Noun, : the interstices between the slats of a fence. From Dictionary.com.
Danger, it seemed, stalked every interstice of day-to-day life. From Wordnik.com. [Tears Of The Giraffe]
Vpon the doore, the interstice whereof was of stone called Gallactites. From Wordnik.com. [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference
One of the horses stirred into motion, led towards that paler interstice. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
Have to stop dumping toxic waste in the third cosmic interstice, things like that. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
This plan is preferable to laying a pale tint of the colour over the whole interstice. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Multilayered matrices, each interstice demanding precise orientation relative to all the others. From Wordnik.com. [Starfish] Reference
But to look for a clue in this intricate network of cobbled streets, to examine every muddy interstice!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
The entire point of layering a wimple across the ley interstice was to alter the perception of the viewers. From Wordnik.com. [The first paragraph contest thread] Reference
In our six degrees network this song occupies the interstice between Edie, The Science of Sleep and The Velvet Underground. From Wordnik.com. [20 « July « 2007 « Jahsonic] Reference
Through every interstice crawled tongues of molten copper, slowly working downward, igniting wood, crumbling ston; shattering glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars My Destination]
Through every interstice crawled tongues of molten copper, slowly working downward, igniting wood, crumbling stone, shattering glass. From Wordnik.com. [Tiger! Tiger!]
The collaging of narratives in "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals" makes each section and each interstice between them a pataphysical quirk. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
The fourth alament made the Pallaice of suche like distribution as the other, the doore except, whiche did occupie an emptie voyde interstice. From Wordnik.com. [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference
He reached the first capsule and, ducking through a loz - enge-shaped interstice between steel girders, clambered onto the black metal grid landing. From Wordnik.com. [Second Skin]
Each prism, an interstice; from each interstice, four beams of coherent light, and four, and four, a wire-frame checkerboard overlaid against bedrock. From Wordnik.com. [Starfish] Reference
Clinging to the bark of the bloodwood, with tail spread out fan-wise as additional support, he searches every interstice, and ever and anon flies to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
The two-and-a-half-foot interstice between the two layers maximizes the circulation of cooled air mandatory for a glass-skinned building in the desert-like Attic climate. From Wordnik.com. [Grading the New Acropolis] Reference
Between the stories that I do tell there are interstices, some shallow, some deep, and in these interstice lay the stories that I do not, for one reason or another, tell. From Wordnik.com. [A Closer Bridge To Home - Her Bad Mother] Reference
In the interstice is an oval or egg-shaped mound. '. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852] Reference
And I consigned it to the most sacred interstice of my pocket-book. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Pickering] Reference
The color is still left in every sheltered interstice of the foliage. From Wordnik.com. [Stones of Venice [introductions]] Reference
My days I sing, and the lands -- with interstice I knew of hapless war. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
An interstice left open between the two flaps permitted a fall view of the interior. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
He undid two hooks only and attempted to effect a sortie through the resultant interstice. From Wordnik.com. [Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories] Reference
I showed him that the sliver taken from the slipper fitted exactly the interstice I had indicated. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont] Reference
The presence of death -- infinite, menacing, for ever treacherously active -- filled every interstice of the poem. From Wordnik.com. [The Buried Temple] Reference
The encampment, occupied by maybe 5,000 people, was surrounded by Thai Army with a large interstice of no man's land. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Yon - Online Magazine] Reference
The lights were all off; a pencil of moonlight here and there from an interstice in the curtains alone touched her as she passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Summons] Reference
Moreover the Jâbâlas speak in their text of the highest Lord as being in the interstice between the top of the head and the chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
Spenser ‘zephyrus’, and not ‘zephyr’; so ‘interstitium’ (Fuller) preceded ‘interstice’; ‘philtrum’ (Culverwell) ‘philtre’; ‘expansum’. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
He took out his penknife as he spoke, and removed a tiny morsel of some white substance from an interstice between two folds of the hair where it touched the face. From Wordnik.com. [After Dark] Reference
It seemed like a day which had slipped into an interstice between two seasons, a day that was somehow rare and exceptional, holding a faint stillness that was strange. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
John poked in and about it -- peering through every interstice -- leaning his breast against the solid depth of branches; but their close shield resisted all his strength. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
The box was nicely mortised against another previously deposited, and as there remained an interstice between it and that at its feet, an infant's coffin made the space complete. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian Days Three American Tales] Reference
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