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

The little flower in the crannied wall could tell what God and man is.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

A house, whose tottering chimney, clay and rock, Is seamed and crannied; whose lame door and lock Are bullet-bored; around which, there and here, Are sinister stains.—One dreads to look around.—

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

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