His fingers crimp and gnarl, turning the hand into a disfigured claw. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 11, 2002 - August 17, 2002 Archives] Reference
Rising from the soil, its trunk bears every gnarl and pit of its ancient age. From Wordnik.com. [Miró's Rich Harvest] Reference
The wiggy 60s gnarl emanating from the speakers does not sound incomplete, however. From Wordnik.com. [Grinderman] Reference
He pointed a long, black finger with a gnarl of a gold ring that stopped just short of poking Jim in the chest. From Wordnik.com. [A Corpse is a Corpse]
In Java and the Moluccas, giant burrs on the stem give rise to finely figured gnarl wood (also called wavy or curly wood). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
He jabbed his spear into the hide-covered log just as Broud pulled up, but he hit a hidden gnarl and the spear clattered to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
In a matter of weeks the trees starve to death and the splendid leaf canopy withers into a gnarl of barren branches as brittle as witch's hair. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis In The Cupboard] Reference
Like I mentioned, the opening sequence is very airy, very simple, just a shot panning overhead of a winding road that seems to twist and gnarl around a mountainous path. From Wordnik.com. [This Week In Trailers: Mammoth, The White Ribbon, Love The Beast, Love, Starsuckers | /Film] Reference
My head still throbbed, my spine felt as if it had cramped into a permanent geriatric gnarl, but I was more alert than Simon, who crawled into the back and was instantly asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Consider, for instance the field lines of some magnets moving around each other, as shown in this video by Daniel Piker, who has a great blog of computational gnarl called Space Symmetry Structure. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
A few controlled hiss and gnarl but no roaring howl, and why?. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
This writeup has been cooled by: avalyn, Jet-Poop, gnarl X 3 C!. From Wordnik.com. [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference
I would gladly pay a little extra to see one gnarl-up a person. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass] Reference
He came to a shelf-rock presently, beside which grew a tangled gnarl of scrub-oak brush. From Wordnik.com. [The Two-Gun Man] Reference
"But I don't understand a word of it all," I cried, half frenzied with the gnarl and tangle of the whole affair. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference
As if the economy's rapid fall weren't enough, here comes the snow, which promises to gnarl city streets and prompt achy backs from shoveling. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
Once again combining live action, multimedia, prosthetic make-up and special effects, Disturbed III will twist and gnarl the psyche of participants. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
A race of walking/floating real-estate-developer birds wants to take over Earth by reducing its gnarl and making all matter (including humans) stupider. From Wordnik.com. [SCI FI Wire] Reference
After that, bewilderment began to cease as, under his amused, painstaking fingers, thread after thread of the involved gnarl of plots and politics betrayed its course. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference
It's good because there are a variety of styles on the team so expect everything from tech manual behavior, ledge monkey trickery, handrail gnarl, out n out shredding and everything in-between. From Wordnik.com. [Caught in the Crossfire - Articles] Reference
It wasn’t until I left for a while and came back to visit that I rediscovered them – unfamiliarity allowed me to regard each branch and gnarl anew. From Wordnik.com. [Review of Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight by Cat Rambo (Paper Golem Press, 2009)] Reference
Sheer gnarl and skullcrushery. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
Rudy Rucker YouTubes the gnarl. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
My caress provoked a long, guttural gnarl. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
How they do gnarl upon us, and their scowl. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
Posted by gnarl. From Wordnik.com. [New Obama Ad: He's More Honest And Presidential Than Other Candidates] Reference
Jet-Poop, gnarl, Simulacron3X 3 C!. From Wordnik.com. [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference
The Titan-armed, gnarl-jointed, rugged oak. From Wordnik.com. [The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems] Reference
My face is ash-color'd -- my sinews gnarl -- away from. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
My face is ash-colored -- my sinews gnarl -- away from me people retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
Deign, dough, feign, gnarl, gnash, gnat, gnaw, gnome, neigh, phlegm, reign, sleigh, sign. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
William Rood has created a somewhat inscrutable --- but mind-boggling --- gnarl investigating page, just click on the screen-captured image below. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
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