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
It was of a loose watrish contexture, such an one, as he had seen growing out of rotten wood.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
A description of the shape and curious contexture of Feathers: and some conjectures thereupon.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
Now, here the beloved apostle shows us this divine contexture of the gospel.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
That has been sadly shown, over and again, and if we had time one could easily point to the reasons in human nature, and its strange contexture, why it should be so.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
