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

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 Donne, John

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

My eyes followed his, and rested almost pleasantly upon the frosted contexture of the pines, rising in moonlit 246 hillocks, or sinking in the shadow of small glens.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The contexture of so great a body holds by more nails than one.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia