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You could not write "the _crannying_ wind" in prose.
How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Edwin A. Abbott
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QUOTATION: All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.
Quotations 1919
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They had been conversing about the magnificent old ruin, and the ages in which it had been built, and the vicissitudesof time and war, that had battered down its walls, and left it "tenantless, save to the crannying wind."
Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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