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
For it seemed as if the watcher stared with his whole face, aye, and with his hands; but Fionn brooded weightedly on distance with his puckered and crannied brow.
From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
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
Though called a castle, the building was little fortified, and had been erected with greater eye to internal convenience than those crannied places of defence to which the name strictly appertains.
From A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
