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
In his opinion, anything which unnecessarily tore to pieces the contexture of the state not only prevented all real reformation, but introduced evils which would call, but perhaps call in vain, for new reformation.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
THE disembodied soul, as conceived by the Greeks, and after them by the Romans, is material, but of so thin a contexture that it cannot be felt with the hands.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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
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 Robert I. Fulton
