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. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
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 became extinct. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
She was scarcely curious as to the food, which consisted of some sort of vegetable and meat stew, together with butterless bread, a kind of small-grained corn on the cob, a yellowish root-vegetable not unlike turnips, and large quantities of berries. From Wordnik.com. [The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix] Reference
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