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

Of the first of these materials, tortoise-shell, that best adapted to manufacturing purposes is the shell, or scales of a horny contexture which inclose the sea-tortoise, Testudo imbricata.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

A good writer will not coil them up and press them into the narrowest possible space, nor macerate them into such particles that nothing shall be remaining of their natural contexture.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Of the contexture of events planned by the author, which is called the action of the poem, since it is left imperfect, no judgment can he made.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

My eyes followed his, and rested almost pleasantly upon the frosted contexture of the pines, rising in moonlit 246 hillocks, or sinking in the shadow of small glens.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis