Thesaurus / contexture
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That perpetual miracle in nature—the contexture of the generations—the living taking the meaning of their lives from the dead!
THE KENTUCKY WARBLERJAMES LANE ALLEN
Excessive grants, followed by violent and arbitrary resumptions, tore to pieces the whole contexture of the government.
It was of a loose watrish contexture, such an one, as he had seen growing out of rotten wood.
As sweet as that 'contexture of woodbines, sweet-briar, and myrtle' in which the anglers sat and sipped orange punch at Tottenham.
MRS. OVERTHEWAY'S REMEMBRANCESJULIANA HORATIA EWING
There is a very extensive manufactory of red woollen caps at Fas, the contexture of which is well deserving investigation.
AN ACCOUNT OF TIMBUCTOO AND HOUSA TERRITORIES IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICAABD SALAM SHABEENY
So as the first doctrine is touching the contexture or configuration of things, as de mundo, de universitate rerum.
THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNINGFRANCIS BACON
Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.
THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLINGHENRY FIELDING
A description of the shape and curious contexture of Feathers: and some conjectures thereupon.
MICROGRAPHIAROBERT HOOKE
And in this sense and acceptation of the words, the natural frame and contexture doth well and pregnantly administer unto us.
DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONSJOHN DONNE
How easily may a plan, whose contexture is most artful and refined, be spoiled in the execution by an awkward instrument.
THE GHOST-SEER (OR THE APPARITIONIST), AND SPORT OF DESTINYFRIEDRICH SCHILLER
WORDS RELATED TO CONTEXTURE
- arrangement
- balance
- being
- character
- coarseness
- composition
- consistency
- constitution
- contexture
- disposition
- essence
- essentiality
- fabric
- feel
- feeling
- fiber
- fineness
- flexibility
- form
- framework
- grain
- intermixture
- make
- makeup
- nap
- nature
- organization
- pattern
- quality
- roughness
- scheme
- sense
- smoothness
- stiffness
- strategy
- structure
- surface
- taste
- tissue
- touch
- warp
- weave
- web
- woof
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