Usage examples (5)

• Patua rice is more esteemed in Europe, and is of very superior qualify; it is small-grained, rather long and wiry, and is remarkably white.
• The sand is pure white and small-grained, with fragments of hornblende and mica, the latter varying in abundance as a feeder is near or far away.
• Researchers managed to create the rapid heating and cooling needed for small-grained features in the metal by setting off a thermite explosion during the processing step.
• The peculiar small-eared and small-grained wheat, already alluded to, was the commonest kind during the Stone period; it lasted down to the Helvetico-Roman age, and then...