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

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

From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill

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 Moses, Montrose Jonas

There is a line in your last volume which I can’t read: the last line but one of the “flower in the crannied wall.”

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various