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 Oldenburg, Henry

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 Johnson, Samuel

I wonder at their present patience and perseverance, and can never sufficiently admire the contexture of that brain which can weave with unwearied toil such immense webs of idle tittle-tattle, and gossipping nonsense.

From Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) by Anonymous

Shall not the celestial earth-ball Equally entertain a mature enquiry, reward our Examination of its contexture, conglomerated Of layer'd d�bris, the erosion of infinite ages?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert