Whistles, whips, boats, all seemed to grow under his gnarled old hands, with their discoloured and broken nails, as though without effort.
At the summit of the cliff a gnarled tree exposed its time-worn roots above the topmost holes forming the last step from the sheer face of the precipice to level footing.
At the top of the cliff beside the gnarled tree Tarzan again took up the trail.
And the rusty red vest was thumbed by the gnarled hand of the father, who was also an orator; and a high-peaked hat swept the ground before the hard-hearted gentlemen.
Two women, in one of the low interiors, were more philosophic than their neighbors; if their stiffened knees would not carry them to the fête, at least their gnarled old hands could hold a pack of cards.
His legs and body were horribly twisted; the dangling arms and crooked limbs appeared as if caricaturing the gnarled and tortured boughs and trunks of the apple-trees.
Outside, in the garden, grew homely flowers and useful vegetables, and perhaps by the gnarled apple-tree there stood in the sun a row of bee-hives.
What arms and limbs and fingers they have, are frequently gnarled and twisted like grape-vines.
Gnarled oaks and stunted pines lift themselves out of the wilderness of shrubs.
Arthur made no reply save to kick thegnarled roots of the tree under which they had stopped for a few moments.
Solitude had been created for the eagle on his crag, for the blasted mountain fir, lonely and gnarled on its peak, for the elk and the wolf.
Would he grow straight and true in this foreign soil or gnarled and misshapen like the cedars and the maples that he saw?
Vague shapes of gnarled branches and pallid tree trunks, spectral bushes quivering before the advancing demon, some of them already alight.
His hair, a dusty white, met the frayed collar of the coat, and through the temporary gaps which he made in its length to cool his body, I saw it like a gnarled and mossy tree.
The puraus often seemed like banians, stretching far over the water in strange and ghostlike shapes, with twisting branches and gnarled trunks that in the obscurity gave a startling suggestion of the fetish growths of the ancients.
Within a stone's throw, under a great branching of gnarled trees, is a nook where the curious sun, peeping at you through the interlaced leaves, will stencil Japanese shadows on your white umbrella.
The sun blazes down on glistening marbles; gnarled old cedars twist themselves upward against the sky; flocks of pigeons whirl and swoop and fall in showers on cornice, roof, and dome; tall minarets like shafts of light shoot up into the blue.
The Wye winds in many a graceful curve, overhung by gnarled trees, at the foot of the grey old pile.
A single gnarled and wide-branched oak represents all that remains of the original Birnam Wood.
Paul stretched out his arms toward the light and stood as dumb and still as the gray boulders and gnarled trees behind him.
Robin placed one foot firmly on the tough and gnarled branch of a giant wistaria that was trained thickly all over that side of the house--"I'm coming up!
Acting on an irresistible impulse he set his foot on the gnarled root of the old wistaria and started to climb to the window-sill.
Through this dell Potato Creek meandered fantastically, washing bare the roots of a few gnarled sycamores, and murmuring among the small bowlders that almost covered its bed.
Like the hub of a gigantic wheel, in the midst of the circle stood a cluster of leafless trees, mighty patriarchs, gnarled and twisted, with great overhanging limbs as stout and rugged as only hoary age can make them.
