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

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

Lilly, with the mysterious tenacity of a crannied flower, was pulling from her soil toward the light.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie

No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges.

From South Sea Tales by London, Jack