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, and your suspending clauses are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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

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 Maclaren, Alexander

Then Sella hung the slippers in the porch Of that broad rustic lodge, and all who passed Admired their fair contexture, but none knew Who left them by the brook.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry