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

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 Santayana, George

Plants Wild Flowers and Ferns Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies; Hold you here, root and all, in my hand.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

A 'flower in the crannied wall' in that 'pure water' sand-pile in New Mexico.

From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill