How To Use Gnarled In A Sentence
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Gnarled and veined like branches of an old olive tree, her hands rested in her lap.
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Constitution, like Topsy, was not made but "growed," and that which grows is never logically perfect; it is like an old tree, strangely gnarled, with countless abrasions and mutilations, and sometimes even curious grafts.
Without Prejudice
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Glorak stood next to a pair of shaggy plants, gnarled with yellow vines and hung with multicolored, fruitlike pods.
Delta Anomaly
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He appeared to be limping, leaning dependently on a short gnarled cane.
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One summer night we sat outside under the gnarled 100-year-old trees and talked while his mom finished fixing dinner.
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Bill Harney has the gnarled hands and weathered hat of a lifetime's work with cattle.
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A gnarled and taliped and snaggy landscape where man might be seen as an afterthought.
Cold Mountain
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Now the hunt for more soaring specimens of kapok, wild ficus, Dead Man's Tree, and gnarled kenip continues, as efforts to save the trees gain steam.
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These gnarled vegetables such as salsify, Jerusalem artichokes and celery root are about to step onto the food fashion runway.
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At the farther end it opened on a little cortile, where gnarled rose-bushes were in bloom.
Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories
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Banks of snow cut them off; snowshoes sank in air pockets -- holes made by protruding limbs of the short, gnarled trees of timber line, -- and through these the man fought in short, spasmodic lunges, breaking the way for the woman who came behind, never stopping except to gather strength for a fresh attack, never ceasing for obstacle or for danger.
The White Desert
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The trunk of the silver birch has always been too bent and gnarled for commercial use.
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But I went alone, reassured in the north by the desert, the barrenness interrupted by the stolid saguaro, the gnarled creosote.
The Right Thing
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I dreamt that we were old, really old, and we were walking with my gnarled old hand in yours.
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The old man drew a long gnarled finger across his throat.
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This was no gnarled old desert king in flowing robes.
The Sun
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Her sister came away from the counter and sat down at one of the rough, gnarled chairs at the table.
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She held out her gnarled hands, as twisted and brown as the galls of a walnut tree.
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The gnarled , bearded features of homer are dear to me, for he , too , knew blindness.
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It was expertly pruned last year and is now a gnarled but very sprightly old lady, full of fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a small square of unmown lawn, with a gnarled, nearly leafless tree in the middle.
LOST CHILDREN
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Although no one can say for certain whether the gnarled old tree is the very one cited in the New Testament -- the local Greek Orthodox church venerates the remnant of another ancient tree, for example -- experts who have examined it say it may very well date back to the time of Jesus.
Zacchaeus' Tree Now A Top Tourist Destination
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Colorful old geezer who walks everyplace with this gnarled briarwood cane, almost as tall as he is, and a big straw hat on his head.
Duma Key
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The champion tupelos have immense, gnarled bulbous bases - each with hollow sections.
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And the beams may have been strengthened with steel, but in some rooms they still resemble gnarled tree trunks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Naass swept the blanket from his shoulders, disclosing the gnarled and twisted flesh, marked with the unmistakable striations of the knout.
An Odyssey of the North
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The gnarled finger plucked another sheet from a pigeonhole, dipped the pen in the standish again, and rewrote the words as surely as the first time.
The Thorn Birds
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My foot slips on the stony soil and I grab a gnarled vine for support.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pair of bright eyes, shaded by bushy white brows, glittered in his brown face -- seamed and wrinkled like the bark of a gnarled oaklike gay flowers amid withered leaves, forming a strange contrast to his lean, bowed, and shrivelled form.
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It was expertly pruned last year and is now a gnarled but very sprightly old lady, full of fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
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On another occasion a gnarled and fervent Radical of the bootmaking persuasion hobbled to the door of his establishment, and waving clenched and uplifted fists, called down upon us and our retreating equipage all the curses at the command of a rather extensive vocabulary until we were out of earshot.
The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
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If you can find a gnarled peasant woman making shabby artefacts from twigs, point your readers in her direction.
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Zimbabwe won by nine runs From little acorns grow gnarled great oaks of despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shop clerk, a gnarled old woman with teeth blacker than the abysses of Hell, wheezed.
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He had a face like worn-out leather: gnarled by high cheekbones and a sullen brow.
NIGHT SISTERS
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The terrain has eroded and only a few gnarled trees linger.
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On a warm summer day their gnarled trunks provide a welcome backrest while you boil a billy and absorb wonderful vistas of vast plains sweeping across herb and grass fields to the distant peaks.
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Great white cliffs appeared, gnarled faces on giant limestone hills.
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Titchy spuds end up gnarled and chewy, giant ones take forever to cook.
The Sun
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The soft earth tones of the stone are a perfect foil for the 350 gnarled olive trees that stud the grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sailor as he was, it was easy enough for him to clamber up the gnarled trunk.
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Gnarled old men ignore the chaos sipping coffee and chatting with fishermen as they untangle their nets.
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He saw that her toil-worn, weather-exposed hands were like a man's, callused, large-knuckled, and gnarled, and that her stockingless feet were thrust into heavy man's brogans.
Chapter IX
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scroggie" thorns blown away from the sea and clawing at the ground like spectral hands, black beneath, but every gnarled knuckle and digit outlined in purest white above.
Patsy
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It is a wonderful place, that jungle, with its tangled trunks and vines and its green foliage swimming in sifted sunlight; with its palms, palmettoes, ferns, and climbing morning-glories, its banana trees, gnarled rubber banyans, and wild mangoes -- which are like trees growing upside down, digging their spreading branches into the ground.
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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The bright purple and red colors from the sunset shafted through the hundreds of small square panes in the windows, and dropped onto the cracked asphalt, which was growing gnarled and full of weeds.
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Gnarled and wizened but full of life, they light every page on which they appear.
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Dybbuk may be the composer's toughest compositional nut to crack, a gnarled web of sound tightly woven from folk music, cantorial prayer, and serial techniques.
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It leans against a wire mesh fence - charred, gnarled and rusting.
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It has several gnarled trees, cactuses, oleanders, a crazy arrangement of pot plants, various graveside paraphernalia such as urns and framed photographs, and a rickety set of narrow pathways.
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Gnarled old apple trees on one side of them, beech trees, sloping upward, on the other.
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Frank inserted a gnarled finger into his ear and rotated it.
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I blinked and caught a glimpse of a brown gnarled hand with black clawlike fingernails curling around my door.
Master of Mirrors
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Mosshart followed up by darting through the gnarled riffage of "Hang You From the Heavens.
Music review of the Dead Weather at 9:30 Club
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Then a gnarled hand grabs my arm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later, sodbusters would curse the tenacity of the area's gnarled trees and search for arable land elsewhere, leaving the timber to deer and squirrels.
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The rough surface and the gnarled features have become the distinctive marks of his works.
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An oblong of pebbles and short posts anchored by a gnarled, leafless tree creates the isolated beach where Braidie retreats in contemplation.
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She saw the bole of the gnarled oak but barely; it could have been a rock-face, a bolted door, the bottom of the deepest well.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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An oblong of pebbles and short posts anchored by a gnarled, leafless tree creates the isolated beach where Braidie retreats in contemplation.
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The fingers were gnarled, lumpy, with long, curving nails suggestive of animal claws.
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Wind- and drought-gnarled Torrey pines do a pas de deux with sandstone formations whose knife-edge ridges, deep furrows, and occasional hoodoo-like capstones create a mini Bryce Canyon at the beach.
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Much of the literature of Africa continues to be a testament of turmoil, oppression, corrupt ‘democratic’ dictatorships born anew from the gnarled roots of colonialism and the word for existence: apartheid.
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His hands were grotesque -- at first glance -- the phalanges elongated, the knuckles gnarled by thyroidal imbalance.
Globe and Mail
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The gnarled bough of a tree reached armlike over the wall.
The Forgotten Garden
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They were old, and they were tall, crooked and gnarled from weather and from time.
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It was gnarled like a tree branch, twisting and distorting in places.
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It was Stamatis as a toddler, with the same gnarled face, the same stoop, the same overmeasure of aural hair, reaching up to the kitchen table and taking a dried pea from a wooden bowl.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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The gnarled , bearded features of Homer are dear to me, for he, too, knew blindness.
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You can camp near the sea beside one of two beaches, dramatically screened by gnarled olive trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's no rhyme or reason why a gnarled grandmother is called arthritic and yet her husband has Alzheimers.
Kim Stagliano: Why is Ohio Retarded but Connecticut Isn't?
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In this show, Soutine's gnarled human arms suggest twisted roots.
Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare
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Aborigines originally used the gnarled trunks and roots of local camphor trees as a base for their carvings.
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The wind howled in an unearthly never-ending scream, whistling through the gnarled, twisted trees.
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The maid withdrew and Latovsky wondered how she'd handle the heavy pot with her gnarled hands, then saw it was on gimbals.
DOLL'S EYES
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His face is haggard; his fingers are gnarled and spindly; and across his lap rests the long stick he now uses to help him walk.
1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Here, gnarled sandstone bluffs drop straight into the sea.
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The wind has gnarled this old tree
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A memoirist of the period recalled ‘a gnarled old lady on the stage, who looked as if she had wandered in from the street.’
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The old man drew a long gnarled finger across his throat.
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There was a picture in the paper I was reading of an old black woman, gnarled as an olive tree.
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Leaphorn moved swiftly toward a gnarled juniper barely visible in the darkness, toward the sound.
THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
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And sons and daughters of his flesh and of the law needs must go with him fulsomely eating out of the gnarled old hand that had half a million to disburse.
LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
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Donovan reached out and grasped the old woman's gnarled hand.
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The medina here is a warren of gnarled old city streets that make you hide your smartphone and wish you didn't look like a tourist.
Times, Sunday Times
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With their gnarled trunks, silvery green leaves and branches weighed down with small greeny black olives, they look as old as the world.
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His arms were long, like prehistoric man's, and his hands were like soup-plates, twisted and gnarled, and big-knuckled from toil.
TOO MUCH GOLD
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I saw one bird, a tiny sparrow darting through the gnarled pine limbs.
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The legs were gnarled and twisted, the left one bent at a crazy angle making the beast tip to one side slightly.
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He wore a black coat and waistcoat, old-fashioned in style, with the folds of a tartan plaid draped over his shoulder, caught up with a brooch whose golden gleam was echoed by the ornamental knurl atop the dirk the old man held, his fingers bent and gnarled with arthritis.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Mosshart followed up by darting through the gnarled riffage of “Hang You From the Heavens.”
In concert: The Dead Weather at 9:30 Club
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My foot slips on the stony soil and I grab a gnarled vine for support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Abruptly the old man wheezed and slumped back in his chair, one stiff, gnarled hand to his chest.
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The smooth grey trunks of the beech, the gnarled oaks and huge spreading limes along with alder, holly and elm.
LOST SUMMER
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The old gnarled trees of the forest grew up to the edge of another bank, their roots jutting out into the deep water.
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Gnarled old men ignore the chaos sipping coffee and chatting with fishermen as they untangle their nets.
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She held out her gnarled hands, as twisted and brown as the galls of a walnut tree.
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The legs were gnarled and twisted, the left one bent at a crazy angle making the beast tip to one side slightly.
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The disciples have gnarled hands, rough faces with the grime and sweat of an arduous day at their fishing nets.
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A gnarled old man is standing on the terracotta balcony of his home.
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Its gnarled branches twisted and turned into the air, and a hangman's noose hung from one of its thickest and strongest branches.
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Everything was strange to his eye—the broad-leaved bushes, the gnarled trunks of the tall trees, the curious-looking fruit hanging here and there, the vines that twined upward into the green distance.
Gideon’s war
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A single gnarled old tree has been valued at 750,000.
The Sun
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gnarled and knotted hands
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This was no gnarled old desert king in flowing robes.
The Sun
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Gnarled and veined like branches of an old olive tree, her hands rested in her lap wrapped around distaff and spindle, paused for the moment from spinning wool from the basket at her feet.
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Hair white and fuzzy, sticking out at both sides; eyes sunken and haunted; hands gnarled.
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He saw that her toil-worn, weather-exposed hands were like a man's, callused, large-knuckled, and gnarled, and that her stockingless feet were thrust into heavy man's brogans.
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A small crevice in the cliff allowed them passage, into a very small, shadowy space between many boulders and the remains of a gnarled, weathered tree.
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From the tiny baby to the gnarled old man, the reward for living is the same: death.
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His daughter drove and his gnarled wife rode side-saddle in the cab, rubbing her mitts together and pulling a scarf up over her head.
WHITE LIES
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Gnarled and knobby root vegetables taste better than they look.
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The gnarled brown trees twisted into the earth and entwined each other in thick embraces.
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Another description is called the scrubby oak -- it resembles the British gnarled oak, and is remarkably hard and durable.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)
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The tree has gnarled red branches and deep green leaves.
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Maybe he wouldn't take it too well that I'd called his girlfriend a gnarled witch.
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As the glacier gathers speed on the steeper sides of the mountain, it contorts and breaks, forming gnarled canyons and crevices of blue ice which are both beautiful and lethal.
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At the rear of the garden is a large lily pool, backed with a pergola laden with gnarled wisteria vines.
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I looked up and noticed a large open window and from the dark interior two frilly beribboned sleeves emerged; two gnarled hands grabbed the adjacent shutters and slammed them shut.
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Under the gnarled and rotted central post his wicked body lies interred forever, unmourned and unremembered, without stone or monument to acknowledge his passing.
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As we follow the level foot-trails that weave through the hamlets of the valley, Asghar Khan points out a 200-year old mulberry tree and, near another ancient fort, a gnarled, 500-year old walnut tree.
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Imagine feeling a little bored while you're sketching a gnarled old boot in your art class.
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Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
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She placated him, smoothing down his shoulder length hair with her rough and gnarled hands.
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The cat, in a lithe movement that argued long practice, fled like a skimming stone to where the gnarled grape-vine twisted drunkenly round the trellis, and shot up it with a scutter of sharp claws.
My Family and Other Animals
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Smart, surrealistic fairy tales steepen in Arabian Nights lore and the gnarled fables of Hans Christian Andersen.
October 2007
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Renowned for its longevity, a gnarled, twisted olive tree can bear fruit for several hundred years.
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Up the hilly road, as though ascending from the depths of the valley, came figures of old men with gnarled sticks hanging from their wrists by leather straps, and women whose heads wrapped in voluminous kerchiefs looked too large for their small bodies.
The Mother
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The gnarled brown root is readily available in our supermarkets and not expensive.
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The tree has gnarled red branches and deep green leaves.
The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
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His face is haggard; his fingers are gnarled and spindly; and across his lap rests the long stick he now uses to help him walk.
1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
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He can make a haunting face peer from the gnarled old trunk of a great oak or fashion an oversized stag beetle from a lime tree.
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I followed them for at least a dozen meters before they ended at the foot of a gnarled old oak, the massive boughs wearing snow and ice.
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The land was barren, with only a few gnarled shrubs and trees to offer little cover, but there was no one in sight.
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Gnarled, twisted, and crevassed, its deepest, darkest cave concealed a fragile moistening stalactite.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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Her gnarled fingers plunged a needle in and out of a large piece of thick sailcloth.
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