The other painting showed a gnarled tree standing on the precipice in a rugged canyon. From LearnThat.org. [Unknown.]
gnarled and knotted hands. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
If you're looking to bring the outdoors in, mix materials such as gnarled wood (as seen in their barley twist twin beds). From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
But heritage in Ireland has been gnarled and open to question. From Wordnik.com. [What Does It Mean To Be Irish?] Reference
They caressed her luminous skin and squeezed her gnarled hands. From Wordnik.com. [THE LEGACY OF TERRI SCHIAVO] Reference
Thy servant, twisted and gnarled like the roots of a fallen tree. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Tiny monkeys leap and coil acrobatically from gnarled synthetic treetops. From Wordnik.com. [Everyday Zoology] Reference
Their dialogue, rural south Texas vernacular, is spare, gnarled and often funny. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Roth and Rushdie] Reference
I was watching TV when the macaw left its cage, clawed its way out on gnarled feet. From Wordnik.com. [Macaw] Reference
They are grotesquely gnarled and twisted, taking most unthought-of shapes and positions. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Her hands are heavy -- the fingers gnarled and out of proportion to her gaunt thin wrists. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Ancient erections loom aloft ringed by decades centuries for some in gnarled scabs of pine. From Wordnik.com. [Pinus Timbre] Reference
And then green spinach and a gnarled tree or two that have known the earth and fear the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Wheatfield with Cypresses. van Gogh] Reference
As I drove past them, I saw the gnarled tangle of a sports car imbedded in an overpass support. From Wordnik.com. [Working With Death Was No Way To Live] Reference
Cracked and gnarled, the trunk struggles through the layers of concrete wrapped around its base. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth Of A New Taipei] Reference
In Sapa we purchase small bags of gold jewelry, purple orchids, gnarled mushrooms and dark honey. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgetting Room 7-8] Reference
His gnarled fingers delve repeatedly into a brown paper bag, grasping for lumps of crusty bread. From Wordnik.com. [Moonlit Mariposa] Reference
She put the brush in Baby Irene's hand and then with two gnarled and twisted fingers she dug out some hair. From Wordnik.com. [The One Ton Woman and the Amazonian Half Man] Reference
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman together try their own version of Beowolfian gnarled and snarling alliteration. From Wordnik.com. [The Sincerest Form of Ridicule] Reference
Maybe someplace high up in the mountains with trees propped like the gnarled spines of windswept umbrellas. From Wordnik.com. [The Mosaic Thief] Reference
In this protected comer grew a strange grove of gnarled and twisted pines, ill nourished and apparently very old. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
When he moved away from the wigwam, Rube saw him go up to a gnarled old cedar tree and stand looking at it curiously. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
And what trees do not by neglect become gnarled and unfruitful, whereas by pruning they become fruitful and productive?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Though Cave gets in a few good jokes on "Worm Tamer" and "Kitchenette," the core of "Grinderman 2" is gnarled and disturbed. From Wordnik.com. [Album review of 'Grinderman 2' by Grinderman] Reference
A gnarled little man who lurches about his book-filled apartment with the aid of two canes, the professor loves confrontation. From Wordnik.com. [Too Soon Old, Too Late Wise] Reference
In our old house I could see the willow tree, close to the house, and further back, three gnarled apple trees I used to climb. From Wordnik.com. [Snake Dreams] Reference
The hoary old hemlocks on the river side shook and bent and tossed their gnarled limbs over the vexed waters with terrible fury. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Rosemary peered at the trees, and giggles floating from one gnarled old apple tree revealed where Sarah and Shirley were hidden. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
She seated herself at the foot of a gnarled old elm, the leafy branches of which descended to the ground and effectually screened. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
It was flung open and a man staggered blindly over the sill, reeling and clutching at his breast with both gnarled, sinewy hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Overhead, in the gnarled branches and leafy boughs were scores of snowy birds, egrets that had chosen the place for a nesting site. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Sitting down at the required distance on a gnarled root, right in the open, he went on with his work with no thought but for his art. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The cops found the last of 19 asleep under a mound of dirty clothes; one 4-year-old, gnarled by cerebral palsy, bore welts and bruises. From Wordnik.com. [Why Leave Children With Bad Parents?] Reference
He roughs up deadbeats, tours New England colleges with his teenage daughter and spills his gnarled guts to a Prozac-prescribing shrink. From Wordnik.com. [Made In The Shade] Reference
He advanced his bony hand, gnarled and mean with useless abstemiousness and miserable abnegations, and revolved the button in the concave. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
She looked above her into the curving arch of those faraway branches, their gnarled age made beautiful with the tenderness of young leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.