contexture
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We are all framed of flaps and patches, and of so shapeless and diverse a contexture, that every piece and every moment playeth his part.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
Of the contexture of events planned by the author, which is called the action of the poem, since it is left imperfect, no judgment can he made.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
Such plays were of too thin contexture to satisfy the somewhat gross and lumpish taste of a Roman audience.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
Collateral events are so artfully woven into the contexture of his principal story, that they cannot be disjoined without leaving it lacerated and broken.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
My eyes followed his, and rested almost pleasantly upon the frosted contexture of the pines, rising in moonlit hillocks, or sinking in the shadow of small glens.
From Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
