crannied
Example Sentences
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We have this wind coming off the East River, and Robert Moses got rid of Walt Whitman's neighborhood of crannied streets, and what was left was a steppe.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013
Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
For it seemed as if the watcher stared with his whole face, aye, and with his hands; but Fionn brooded weightedly on distance with his puckered and crannied brow.
From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
There is a line in your last volume which I can’t read: the last line but one of the “flower in the crannied wall.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
Tennyson will make appeal to "The flower in the crannied wall" by way of silencing the agnostic's prating against God.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
