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
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
The tongue is a contexture of small muscles and nerves so very supple, that it winds and turns like a serpent, with unconceivable mobility and pliantness.
From The Existence of God by Henry Morley
His dissimulation was of a stronger contexture, and not to be broken even by sorrow and confinement.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
There is a very extensive manufactory of red woollen caps at Fas, the contexture of which is well deserving investigation.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
