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

A theory, in short, which for the reason is a veritable contexture of confusions.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

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

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

Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, are the things that hold together the great contexture of the mysterious whole.

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