All 9 Uses
species
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Selected Tales, by Poe
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- Through a species of unutterable horror and awe, for which the language of mortality has no sufficiently energetic expression, I felt my heart cease to beat, my limbs grow rigid where I sat.†
Scene 1 *species = a similar group of animals or plants
- I went so far as to regret the loss of the animal, and to look about me, among the vile haunts which I now habitually frequented, for another pet of the same species, and of somewhat similar appearance, with which to supply its place.†
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- His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium, during the periods of his most intense excitement.†
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- To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave.†
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- His countenance was, as usual, cadaverously wan—but, moreover, there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes—an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor.†
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- I was not particularly attentive to what you did; but observation has become with me, of late, a species of necessity.†
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- Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured the word 'stereotomy,' a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.†
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- I see that no animal but an Ourang-Outang, of the species here mentioned, could have impressed the indentations as you have traced them.†
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- , (the morning of the murder,) a very large, tawny Ourang-Outang of the Bornese species.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)