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

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

If the flower in the crannied wall, if even a single atom of matter, present mysteries which the most profound intellect cannot solve, how is it possible for man to comprehend the universe?

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