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
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 Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
The flower in the crannied wall he would leave there.
From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps
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 Elizabeth Fry Page
