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

A good writer will not coil them up and press them into the narrowest possible space, nor macerate them into such particles that nothing shall be remaining of their natural contexture.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, are the things that hold together the great contexture of the mysterious whole.

From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Fulton, Robert I.

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

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 Hooke, Robert