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

That has been sadly shown, over and again, and if we had time one could easily point to the reasons in human nature, and its strange contexture, why it should be so.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

Now, here the beloved apostle shows us this divine contexture of the gospel.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh