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
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
I wonder at their present patience and perseverance, and can never sufficiently admire the contexture of that brain which can weave with unwearied toil such immense webs of idle tittle-tattle, and gossipping nonsense.
From Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) by Anonymous
Of the contexture of events planned by the author, which is called the action of the poem, since it is left imperfect, no judgment can he made.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
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
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