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

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 Page, Elizabeth Fry

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies.

From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by Esslemont, J. E. (John Ebenezer)

On the west, a perpendicular mole, crannied like an old ruin, lifts itself straight up toward the sky.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)