All 5 Uses of
species
in
Wuthering Heights
- He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.†
Chpt 1 *
- I ejaculated, mentally, 'you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.†
Chpt 2
- I thought her conduct must be prompted by a species of dreary fun; and, now that we were alone, I endeavoured to interest her in my distress.†
Chpt 2
- A minute previously she was violent; now, supported on one arm, and not noticing my refusal to obey her, she seemed to find childish diversion in pulling the feathers from the rents she had just made, and ranging them on the sheet according to their different species: her mind had strayed to other associations.†
Chpt 12
- I did not feel as if I were in the company of a creature of my own species: it appeared that he would not understand, though I spoke to him; so I stood off, and held my tongue, in great perplexity.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(species) a group of animals or plants that are similar -- typically identified as belonging to the same group when they are of a kind that can reproduce new members of the group together