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
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
Let us then look with ever fresh wonder on this marvellous contexture of human life, and on Him that moulds it all to His own perfect purposes.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
This islet, of curious contexture, resembles as near as possible a cup turned upside down, from which a fuliginous vapor arises.
From Facing the Flag by Jules Verne
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
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