ground fine
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He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground fine and digestible, sieved through a faintly subacid cast of thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was indeed mortally fond of her girdle-cakes, and had wheaten flour ground fine at a distant mill for the purpose of making them.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
It was crushed and sorted and crushed again and ground fine in the revolving tubes, and 188then it was screened and washed and separated on vanners until nothing but the concentrates remained.
From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane
If the quartz was very rich in gold, it was pounded and ground fine in a hand mortar.
From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
“Galena ore, ground fine by the action of water.”
From The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado by Emerson, Chase
