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
The flower in the crannied wall would express the same thing as the bust of Caesar or the Critique of Pure Reason.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
I have but now Dismounted; and, from yon sequester'd cot, Whose lonely taper through the crannied wall Sheds its faint beams, and twinkles midst the trees, Have I, adventurous, grop'd my darksome way.
From André by Montrose Jonas Moses
The proceedings are superintended by a contemplative tabby cat, coiled up in a niche, like a feline flower in a crannied wall.
From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
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