My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.

I leaned against a gnarl in the olive tree behind.

I lifted my body up into the hedge and snaked my legs deep into its gnarl.

The cup had been carved out of a gnarl, judging from the pattern of the wood grain.

I expect Maud will have the family tree along and urge us to stop overnight at every gnarl on the 'trunk.'

There is no gnarl about him yet, but it will come, most likely in further increments against France in Paris on Sunday.

She'd gnarl her face up for no reason while giving out bedtime meds and slam back into the nursing station without a word.

As the pane shattered I wheeled my feet and drove them down, ensuring they went first with the rupturing snow into the gnarl below.

He stood upon the highest vantage-point that he could attain with safety, where a shaggy gnarl of the all-pervading ivy served as a friendly stay.

Gnarled oaks and short dense evergreens cast tiny shadows across the path.

A tall familiar figure walking with a staff of twisted gnarled wood.

Mature trees crowned the rise, gripping it in gnarled fists of roots.

Two large gnarled hands burst out of the wood, reaching for me.

Dulles held his copy in trembling fingers gnarled with arthritis and gout.

Waves gently lapped at the gnarled, exposed roots of the oak tree.

Columns rose from pool to ceiling, thick and gnarled as tree trunks.