The front door of the house was made of ancient grey weathered oak with iron banding that had nail heads as big as golf balls.

Sculpture especially has to stand up to the prominent birch, stained mahogany and weathered oak trim.

Stepping back, Norac swung with all his strength, and the head of the spike disappeared into the weathered oak.

As they slowed and came to a halt in the yard, their sides heaving, the heavy doors of weathered oak and gold were thrown open.

For a few moments, Banks stared at the weathered oak, his mind spinning.

The rack of his antlers spreads like the branches of a weathered oak - eighteen points if one.

He put his shoulder to the weathered oak and it shuddered inwards.

The gates are oak, old, weathered and thick as the length of a man's hand.

Our guide ignored them all and led us up a flight of forbidding stairs to double doors of weathered and iron-studded oak.

His lined face and knotted muscles reminded Liriel of a weathered oak.