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

Strengthened as was his monarchical power in Spain, in Germany he found it hemmed in and fettered by the Estates of the Empire and the whole contexture of political relations.

From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius

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 Maclaren, Alexander

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 Verne, Jules

These threads that compose this fine contexture, though they are as small as those that constitute the finer sorts of Silks, have notwithstanding nothing of their glossie, pleasant, and lively reflection.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert