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
A 'flower in the crannied wall' in that 'pure water' sand-pile in New Mexico.
From Vanguards of the Plains by Margaret Hill McCarter
His mother, on a stuel, At the crannied hearth prepared his gruel.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various
We think of Tennyson's "little flower in the crannied wall."
From Nature Mysticism by John Edward Mercer
