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
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
All these are so interwoven, that the attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole, and, if not entirely destroy, would very much depreciate, the value of all the parts.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
If we give credence, as we ought to, to that word, it will purify us, and it will test of what contexture our faith is.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander
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 Johnson, Samuel
