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Behind the busiest street, I walked romantic corridors between dilapidated wood and mud houses with charming little kitchens, fire-places, wood storage rooms, and some with courtyards and even pebble mosaic designs laid in the ground beneath knotty gnarled old trees that still flowered bright crimson and pale blue
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woman pointing at a gnarled and ancient oak tree that stood in the
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mother sat quietly in the kitchen with her gnarled old hands
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grassy plateau sheltered by a few gnarled and windswept trees
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A mesh of gnarled roots thick as normal trees, sprang from the earth, surrounding the trunk for miles
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He was as gnarled as the few straggly pines
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Those that found the courage to near him, assumed he was asleep – or possibly dead – so still was the man as he leaned on his gnarled staff
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There came a soft hiss as Adros’ grip tightened on his gnarled staff
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He tells me that he looks as bent as the gnarled oak that Philemon’s namesake became
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She walked slowly, but even if she dragged this out at the pace of gnarled Philemon, she
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“Don’t move,” said the man in a heavy, gnarled voice, emphasizing every word to make the command unmistakable
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The gnarled, dark-brown and uneven outer wall of the grand floor was nearby
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In contrast, the gnarled limbs grew in all directions
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I"m sure there were odors from the trees and vines that twined themselves around these gnarled limbs, but I didn"t notice
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Pomegranate trees preened themselves with scarlet flowers, while nearby the gnarled limbs of olive trees became mere dark blobs against the landscape
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I leaned against one of the gnarled tree trunks, almost unable to stand without support
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The beast is uncoiling! It's gnarled head rising! The eyes bulging ! The mouth twisting! And that tail
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in front of his face, revealing it to be more of a parchment-white, gnarled claw
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The stranger touched her forehead, chanting as he traced symbols on her skin with a gnarled finger
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The enormous stump with its buttresses and gnarled roots was afterwards set on fire, and when darkness fell on the capital the blazing fetish houses and heaps of rubbish, with the black bodies of the levies as they rushed hither and thither, demolishing walls and throwing fresh fuel on the blazing piles, made a weird and striking scene, that will be long imprinted on the minds of those who witnessed it
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The gnarled head bobbed slowly
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Darkburst rested beneath a gnarled elder eating the worms he'd gathered earlier
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" He tapped the concrete with a gnarled knuckle
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"'Ere, 'ave yer seen them new lot what's moved into Whiteford's old cottage yet?" Uncle Hobart clicked his dentures, crumpling his empty beer can with gnarled fingers
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He saw the Pilgrim had left his walking stick behind; a sturdy piece of wood, gnarled and light
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We spread a blanket beneath a gnarled old tangerine tree far in the back, out of sight of the house
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When we walk up the steps, he stops the knife and tosses it into his other hand, which is gnarled with scars
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A maple-tree grew beside it with a curiously gnarled and twisted trunk, creeping along the ground for a little way before shooting up into the air, and so forming a quaint seat; and September had flung a scarf of pale smoke-blue asters around the hollow
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His face gnarled into a look of pain, although it was uncalled for
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Seated at the end of the tables stood a very large but gnarled
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The great chief stood up on his gnarled stumps and clapped his
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An enraged Derek ran to the nearest gnarled bush and clung
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In his right hand, he holds a thick ancient book; in his left, a gnarled wooden cane
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He reached out, there was something in his gnarled old
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” Talia pronounced as she produced the staff from that collection, a slightly gnarled two-meter length of a wood that had been bleached almost white, topped with a brass circle ten centimeters in diameter
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But no, this man was older than Duncan Gelahn, and his face was gnarled and lined with the sun
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Callused, gnarled old instruments of mercy, he thought, and then quickly took his leave of them
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When she asked the question again, this time more quietly, his head fell backwards and the gnarled angles of the tree pressed into his hair
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He was lying in his usual position: on his back with one gnarled arm flung out to one side, his head turned towards it, away from her
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” Talia pronounced as she produced the staff from that collection, a slightly gnarled six-foot length of a wood that had been bleached almost white, topped with a brass circle four inches in diameter
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Simon’s fingers were gripping his companion’s upper arm and as he watched he saw them turn grey and gnarled, as if he’d aged in a moment to the point of death
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Callused, gnarled old instruments of mercy, he thought, and then quickly took his leave of
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His mother, a gnarled woman in the same trade as himself; a father he never knew but dreamed of often; later, his woman; the children she had borne for him; the trade in wax and the long hours they spent dredging a living from it
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I could feel every bone in his gnarled hand
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It was a gravelly voice as gnarled as his hands
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She drew her dagger and stabbed at the gnarled claw that held her
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He used his gnarled and filthy hands to drag himself across the dirt to me
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I stared at Aunty Em’s gnarled claws, and tried to fight the groggy trance the old woman had put me in
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All the trees and plants around here—few that there are—have a bedraggled and gnarled appearance
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There was a severed black hand sinking its thorny claws into the nape of the Dangler’s neck—the three gnarled fingers had the same volcanic, crusted skin as the dark hand the children had seen fall into the river by the first hole in the water, then again more recently scuttling along the riverbed in the Soridwood
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Parts of them, roots and branches were twisted and gnarled into oddly comic shapes, growing too quickly for the rest of the tree, mutated by some unknown force
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with gnarled veins and tiny scars
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The elder looked into the grizzled faces of his audience; then with a sweep of a thin gnarled hand gave a sign which indicated its ending, ‘That’s it, t’ain’t no more to tell
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The narrow dusty roads, the picturesque red tiled roofs that capped blinding white stucco cottages fitting neatly onto steep hillsides, the tiny fields with centuries-old olive trees, their branches and trunks gnarled by time
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His long face twitched nervously, his gnarled hands quietly shredded a plastic coffee cup
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“Out front!” The man raised his arm and hand but his gnarled knuckles actually pointed in several directions away from the enormous building
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I rose to my feet and looked through a clearing in the gnarled branches
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A short distance in front of me stood an elderly, white-bearded man dressed in a plain off-white and tan, broad-stripped robe, holding a gnarled staff in his right hand
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arrived at the base of the gnarled trunk he threw his arms around it – embracing
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He still had the strong Hampton chin, but his ears had gotten longer and he walked with a noticeable stoop and a gnarled, wooden cane
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All the trees here were twisted and gnarled
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pads in town to gnarled old bear-cave houses in the forests south of Munich
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The green of new weeds infused the gnarled
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If you saw some of the hot messes that were shambling around with wedding rings on their deformed, scaly, gnarled fingers you'd want to track down their spouse and give them some sort of award
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Their height was short, a mere ten feet at the most, but their gnarled branches radiated out and ran parallel to the ground for thirty or forty feet
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Its trunk seemed short in relation to its wide-spreading, gnarled branches, which ran parallel to the ground and radiated out nearly forty feet
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Doris rapped the bark of the gnarled, blasted tree with her gnarled, blasted fingers, and it crawled back into the earth from whence it had come
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gnarled old hand across the wrinkles on her face
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out for mile upon mile ahead of them, a sticky black mass of gnarled old trees and withered
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of them, he had spotted a figure sitting beneath a gnarled old tree, who was taking long swigs
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But now and then, beauty could get through to the rolled up, gnarled nut that his soul had become
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A woman, a gnarled hand holding a cane, came over to Monty: “I haven’t seen you before
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Krishna could not resist, and put a ten-dollar bill in the man’s gnarled hands
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Shadows from his gnarled fingers twisting in the air clawed his face
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The gnarled form hobbled up the slope and stopped a few
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On the opposite side of the road, an apple orchard covered a low hillside, the familiar short, gnarled trees growing in long orderly lines
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glimpse of a gnarled silver belt
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a grafted bare limb now is, a gnarled trunk
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" Then, a hand gnarled with age and tipped with blackened fingers, slipped from between the gauze like material that hung from the bed's canopy and rested upon the boy's head but despite its appearance of a talon, it was gentle upon his crown
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He looked up to see an older woman, dressed in the black robes of a venefica, step from the shadows behind the throne and place her gnarled stained hand upon Spurius' shoulders
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As the chief anchor prattled on about some highly strange news he proceeded to regularly flap his wings into the lighting equipment while accidentally thrashing his gnarled body against the cardboard backdrop
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Stepping over young legs sprawled here ‘n there along the hallway at SAB, the day of her audition, I made my eager10-yr-old look at those gorgeous teenage legs, then at the gnarled and bandaged feet they ended in, told her she’d never wear beautiful shoes if she went on dancing
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Reg clicked on a light and saw that many Crabbits had gnarled away his limbs
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Massive, solid, an imposing figure among the tall, skinny pines, it had towered over her, its knotted trunk and gnarled branches a testament to the years of withstanding whatever storms Nature in all Her fury and wisdom had thrown at it
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The branches were cut cleanly and fell to the ground, shriveled and gnarled
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Lena reached out and touched the scrambled nest with gnarled fingers
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outermost leaves of the two gnarled “live oak” trees in our backyard were also seen as having
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Grandpa Dick - Standing there in his worn bibbed overalls with straw hat clutched in his gnarled
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“Choosing is its own reward?” Miney instinctively stuck a business holo-card between his gnarled stubs, where her pixelating title strobed against his scabs – Monergic Spiritual Counselor
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His hands were gnarled and calloused, his black hair streaked with gray, and his black eyes lined with dark circles and bags beneath them
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Not her!” he yelled and pointed at Maia, whose fingers were gnarled into pretend lion’s claws
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Her gnarled hands trembled as they strained to unscrew the lid to the thermos
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” Nurse paused and scratched her backside with her fingers, gnarled as a tree root
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“I can see the resemblance,” he said as he sandwiched her manicured fingers between his gnarled mitts
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Shards of glass covered the hood of Melvin’s car; the shed’s doors, which lay gnarled and black, had been smashed into the wood fence
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Its trunk was rough and gnarled with age
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Wan Lung let his heavy black bicycle drop on the grass hear a gnarled old white barked tree and straightened, stretching his back and neck as he rolled his dirty vest in on itself so it would stay hitched around his nipples
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Fred was driving pretty hard and competently, changing gears before tight curves and accelerating smoothly out of them, overtaking slow- moving vehicles with quick bursts of power, all this while comfortably leaning back in his seat, his shoulders relaxed, his big, gnarled hands holding onto the wheel with calm firmness, his eyes professionally scanning the road ahead