Square in the middle of what used to be the San Diego Freeway, I leaned back against a huge, twisted oak.

"That little twisted oak or whatever it is," Martha said as she drove.

He turned left, crossing a stream and passing a twisted oak that somehow seemed very familiar.

They looked through the twisted old oaks at the tower and the tumbledown boathouse standing at the edge of the cove.

Mike followed the other crawler into an open stand of twisted oaks.

They moved warily and on the second day they found the body of the blind seeker, kneeling by a twisted oak.

He had been there for hours, motionless, waiting, so still he might have rooted himself to earth like a bare, twisted oak without realizing it.

Garion drew in his breath sharply and froze beside a large, twisted oak.

Everywhere looked the same in here, dead or dying twisted oaks, bogs and thick reeds.

Resting her back against the bole of a twisted oak she tried to rest her mind.