As she paced around the wooden obelisk, she saw that its cylindrical shape was grooved and swirled with long bumps, like thick branches twisted in a knot.

Its branches twisted and thinned.

The wall directly outside was covered with wisteria creeper, its ancient gnarled branches twisted together underneath a thick layer of white ice crystals; it extended upwards for at least another two floors.

But all at once a fallen branch twisted under the Dark Elf's foot.

But this second platoon, commanded by the captain, had broken a thin fir growing on the shore, and with its resinous branches twisted together, the captain had made a torch.

In one corner, in a simple rounded pot with lion's feet, was a tiny tree, its branches twisted like limbs in agony, its tight leaf-clusters separate, distinct from one another so that each narrow, wormlike branch stood out, stretched and melted, black like iron against the background whiteness.

Leaves curled to form flesh; branches twisted to shape bones.

Several men went into it, and soon came back with a bundle of branches twisted into a litter.

"Those are 'coffins', your majesty," the Builder said to me, holding the smoky torch he'd made from some pine branches twisted together.