crannied

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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

If the flower in the crannied wall, if even a single atom of matter, present mysteries which the most profound intellect cannot solve, how is it possible for man to comprehend the universe?

From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)

His mother, on a stuel, At the crannied hearth prepared his gruel.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various

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 Stephens, James