contexture
Example Sentences
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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
Now, here the beloved apostle shows us this divine contexture of the gospel.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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 Henry Oldenburg
Collateral events are so artfully woven into the contexture of his principal story, that they cannot be disjoined without leaving it lacerated and broken.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
And in this sense and acceptation of the words, the natural frame and contexture doth well and pregnantly administer unto us.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
