Wood soft and close-grained, neither strong nor durable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

He used mostly one kind of wood, viz., close-grained maple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

Wood is light, soft, close-grained, and takes a fine polish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Wood light, soft, not strong, and close-grained (see Fig. 14).    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

"It is as close-grained and delicate as -- as a lady's cheek.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

Commercial value: The wood is strong, close-grained, and tough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

Wood light, soft, close-grained, and susceptible of high polish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Wood light, soft, not strong, often quite tough and close-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The wood is close-grained and heavy and the root system extensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1] Reference

Wood close-grained, compact structure, annual rings clearly marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Ruses served my turn to draw the time out-first a close-grained web.    From Wordnik.com.  ["You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us."] Reference

Wood heavy, strong, close-grained, durable in contact with the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Commercial value: Its wood is heavy, close-grained, and takes a good polish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of Trees] Reference

Wood of good quality, but light, fairly hard and strong, tough, close-grained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The wood is close-grained, heavy, fairly hard and strong, of compact structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The handle was of some dark wood, likely ebony, close-grained and highly polished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Fearless]

The hard, close-grained timber requires days of hewing and sawing to get it severed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

It was heavy and black and close-grained and at one corner of it a bit of bark remained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Way Station]

The box was about four inches square, made of a highly-polished close-grained golden wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits White As Lightning]

The wood of many species is heavy, close-grained, strong, durable and of a pleasing colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Wood white, tinged with orange; heavy, hard, tough, and close-grained, works well and stands well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The Norwegian ski was made of close-grained wood, 1 inch thick, 3-1/2 inches wide and 6 feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

The tool was shaped from close-grained hickory but the biting edge of the blade had a shoe of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

The wood of them, which is white, close-grained, tough, and light, is well adapted to that purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference

Rather close-grained, conspicuous medullary rays, and when quarter-sawn and well smoothed is very beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Heartwood light reddish brown, sapwood nearly white, close-grained, compact structure, with a satiny luster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Wood heavy, tough, exceedingly close-grained, very strong and hard, durable in contact with the soil, and will take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, easily worked, very durable in contact with the soil and very fragrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

Wood light, soft, satiny, close-grained, durable in contact with the soil, resembling and sometimes confounded with tulip tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

The Chippewas are also celebrated for their pipes, which are cut out of a close-grained stone of a dark color; and Professor Wilson, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

It should be made of close-grained, well-seasoned wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

It is close-grained, hard, heavy, elastic and tough, and takes a high polish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference

They are made of the close-grained oak that grows in a high northern latitude, and well seasoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference

These old paper-hangings were of very heavy and strong materials, close-grained, firm and durable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

His wood is tough enough and close-grained enough, but there is plenty of sap coursing through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference