It left death behind in a twisted thing resembling the gnarled roots of a long dead tree.

There were two more flat on the ground, between the thick, gnarled roots.

She and Mother had wandered along dear little paths over gnarled roots.

In the flickering light, I followed the gnarled root over to a wide, old tree several yards away.

He peered up over the top of a gnarled root.

With gnarled roots and sprawling limbs, the tree had to be well over a hundred years old.

From the bag at his hip, Adam took a gnarled root the length of a little finger.

He dropped an enormous gnarled and knobbly root in front of her.

Joan sat on a natural seat formed by gnarled great roots of the Tree.

She could see, dimly, a gnarled root a few inches from her nose.