His form was as gnarled as the tree-trunks in the apple-orchard, and twisted almost as fantastically.

" The hired man was a big, lumbering fellow, gnarled like an old oak-tree.

Our road was through a country resembling Arcadiathe earth hidden by a dense bed of grass and flowers; thickets of blossoming shrubs; old, old oaks, with the most gnarled of trunks, the most picturesque of boughs, and the glossiest of green leaves; olive-trees of amazing antiquity; and, threading and enlivening all, the clear-cold floods of Lebanon.

He had so settled down on his rheumatic old joints that he had become dwarfish in stature as well as gnarled in shape, and looked a gnomelike thing, gazing up at the tall young woman.