commixture

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The volume of rain produced in the Condor’s water cycle is enormous, says Luna, thanks to a unique commixture of altitudes, endemic soils, and solar and wind patterns.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

Professor Child suspects a commixture of the two episodes in the one ballad, or more probably, a grafting of a later ballad on to an earlier one.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Arts may flourish, and as it were by a commixture and communication of Rays, inflame one another....

From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

And again he danced a singular commixture of the jig and cotillion, much to the Indian's amazement, for he thought him crazy.

From The Lost Trail by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

Her voice, in its very high tones, was something of the quality of a flute or flageolet, or resembled a commixture of the finest sounds of the flute and violin, if such could be imagined.

From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)