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
Just as the comprehensive explanation of 'the flower in the crannied wall' is the explanation of the whole universe, so every question is but a thin layer of ice over infinite depths.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
His mother, on a stuel, At the crannied hearth prepared his gruel.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various
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
