close-grained

How To Use close-grained In A Sentence

• The base of these hills was of close-grained white-coloured granite, or whinstone: the summits of good freestone: on the sides several good pieces of iron ore were picked up. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
• I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.] Old Calabria
• Ruses served my turn to draw the time out-first a close-grained web "You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us."
• Practically all supermarket pears are pale travesties of the real thing, which have a combination of slippery, honeyed sweetness and a tight, close-grained texture of the flesh.
• The wood of them, which is white, close-grained, tough, and light, is well adapted to that purpose. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
• Beech and particularly the close-grained sycamore seem to have been the most usual choices for painted boxes and other small objects.
• The wood of this cartouche is the same as that of the basilisks upon the arms, being very hard and close-grained, and of a tawny, yellow hue, like boxwood. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
• Bonding strength high ensure heavy bamboo slats inside and outside close-grained, surface of bright color, pure and fresh and elegant, bamboo grain clarity, elastic, high hardness and stable quality.
• That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness. Moby Dick; or the Whale
• close-grained birch