1662 W. Faithorne 25 Take a char-cole of willow or some such soft grain'd wood.
1770 J. Cook II. xxv. 377 We travelled..over ridges of rock, of a dark coloured, soft grained stone.
1966 3 Mar. 329/1 Souzay..is..now able to make his beautiful soft-grained voice cover a wide range of human experience.
2010 L. D. Wesley vi. 132 The unusual behavior of soft-grained sands.