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
A house, whose tottering chimney, clay and rock, Is seamed and crannied; whose lame door and lock Are bullet-bored; around which, there and here, Are sinister stains.—One dreads to look around.—
From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
His mother, on a stuel, At the crannied hearth prepared his gruel.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various
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
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