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

The contexture and combining of this monarchy and great building having been dismissed and dissolved by it, namely, in her old years, giveth as much overture and entrance as a man will to like injuries.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

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

A description of the shape and curious contexture of Feathers: and some conjectures thereupon.

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

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 Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.