gnarled wood

Rees stood before the tall cylinder and ran his fingers over the gnarled wood.

Mr. Smith's work features peeled, gnarled wood bent into distinctive shapes.

He responds by transforming them into sculpture - haunting African faces sprouting from gnarled wood.

They were small men, dark-haired, with surly lined faces beaten by weather and hard living to a texture like gnarled wood.

They were like gnarled wood.

The nearly twenty pounds of forged carbon steel smashed the blade through packed earth, gnarled wood, and stones with ease.

The leaves on its back were being shed in lines and a skeleton of furry creeper and black, gnarled wood was showing through.

Finally, tired, he made it back to the shelter-breath condensing in the chill air-and dropped the last of the gnarled wood he could find.

The woman wielded a cudgel made of gnarled wood and spiked with sharpened prongs of re-bar.

She let the wrapping fall to the floor and took in the noggik tree seedling, running her hands over its gnarled wood, breathing its pungent fragrance.

Her temples are made of gnarled wood and tortured stone, carved with weird designs that seem to change depending on the angle from which they are seen.

He was a raw-boned man with a face that looked as if it might have been hacked, by a dull hatchet, out of a block of gnarled wood.

Though they seem bare in January, no more than masses of gnarled wood in various stages of pruning, it's easy to see the regional hierarchy of vines.

Now and then he dismounted to look at what seemed to me to be the protruding roots of long buried trees, where soil had washed away to show the gnarled wood.

As we walk through the hotel we see armchairs in gnarled wood and strange wooden sculptures - all with textures that reveal a theme of a weathered natural world.

S Map Luís and João bewitch with floaty, feminine polka-dot, gingham and ruffle designs at their enchanted forest of fashion, bedecked with chandeliers and gnarled wood.

It is made from a piece of gnarled wood from an arbutus (or Pacific Madrone) tree, and has the names of past champions (Keepers of The Bark) engraved upon it.