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

According to Wordsworth, the flower in the crannied wall and the strawberry teach the same lesson, for does he not say:— That life is love and immortality.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John

Flower in the crannied wall,   I pluck you out of the crannies,   I hold you here, root and all, in my hand.

From Edward MacDowell by Page, Elizabeth Fry

Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underworld darkness.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)