All 3 Uses of
species
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- If your business necessitated your seeing "the House," you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and you could hardly blink at it in the dismal twilight.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Similarly, though with a subtle difference, a species of fervour or intoxication, known, without doubt, to have led some persons to brave the guillotine unnecessarily, and to die by it, was not mere boastfulness, but a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind.†
Chpt 3.6
- * * * "The other patient lay in a back room across a second staircase, which was a species of loft over a stable.†
Chpt 3.10
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