No mother, I noted-but there, a bent figure leaning on two gnarled sticks, her face wise and creased; surely, it was her grandmother.

The stick, heavy and gnarled on one end, made a fine cudgel, though he'd only get one blow against a swordsman.

Esher lay sprawled on the dais, his useless legs twisted beneath him like gnarled sticks.

They looked like gnarled sticks, and I didn't see what her interest was in them.

She was staring at the rosebushes with their gnarled sticks again, and I suddenly realized that she'd wanted me to say yes.

Galaeron removed his scabbard and laid it into a tangle of gnarled sticks.

He makes slow progress through the afternoon sunshine, leaning on a gnarled stick that seems to blend invisibly into his arthritic banana-curved fingers.

His hands were folded in his lap, gnarled sticks of deadwood that had become inextricably locked together.

Though he hobbled with the aid of a gnarled stick, his power was evident to those who could see.