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

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

His mother, on a stuel, At the crannied hearth prepared his gruel.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various

The flower in the crannied wall would express the same thing as the bust of Caesar or the Critique of Pure Reason.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George