| 单词 | gable |
| 例句 | She had visited the College three times before; she knew that the ridges and gables and chimneys of the roof concealed plenty of hiding places, even for something as large as the intention craft. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It seemed more like Doom Manor than Daffodil Manor, since there wasn’t a flower in sight, just imposing gables and a wrought iron fence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It portrayed the young leader as a happy, hug- gable family man. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As the enemy marched through the occupied streets, a few desperate Loyalists fired upon them from gables, then slid down roofs on their bellies, and fled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Nat took the shovel and went down Turner’s Lane to the big gloomy house with seven gables. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s on top of the roof, walking with a foot either side of the apex towards the gable,” yelled Abbot Mortimer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She raced across the steep pitch of the gable. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The porch furniture looks like my lounging chair, and the trim on the gable is a weaving of gnarled oaks and maple branches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We had turned towards home and, at the top of a rise, I saw the gables of Monmouth House, bleak in the distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “The beam cuts right across the top gable. I can see the weather vane as clearly as if it were day.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Before I follow, I stop at the gable end of a bombed-out block to wait for my little brother. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The buildings on either side of him had high, timbered gables; they looked like gingerbread houses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He stood looking up at the gable to his old room. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Hazel patrolled the widow’s walk between the two attic gables. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Granny called, “See that big house, children? Down near the water? Your great-great-great-grandfather, Captain Turner, built that house. No other house in Salem like it. It has seven gables.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the water he could see other fine mercher houses, tall and slender, the tidy gables of their rooftops making a dark silhouette against the night sky, their gardens and boathouses lit by glowing lanterns. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I was checking out the brass eagle weather vane on top when something caught my eye, a shadow in the uppermost window of the attic gable. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Dusty fingers of sunlight reached through the skylight and the narrow slates of a gable vent at the opposite end of the room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The Calliope Inn that loomed up on her right like a haunted house, all eaves and gables, was very much not her home. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A ragged winter sparrow flew in patterns against the smoky sky and at last came to light on a gable of the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The triangular wooden frames fitted into the gables were intricately carved, the light that slanted through them and fell in patterns on the floor was full of secrets. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked down to the end of the loft and looked out the high gable window at the country below, the pieced land dead and gray, the fence, the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Root drew a house of three stories with gables and a peaked roof, in red brick, buff sandstone, blue granite, and black slate; Burnham refined the drawings and guided construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At the top, she stands; she has the sense of a long slope-walled space pressed beneath the gable of the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He went back to the gable and stood studying what he could see of the house beyond the corner of the barn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A mansion by any account, three stories and all gables and massive windows—many of them broken now—and fancy brickwork. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He could mingle with the big groups that stumbled off the boats and raced through town for a few hours, photographing everything that looked old with a bit of gold on its gable. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Before the wagons came to the big house with seven gables they stopped in front of a weather-beaten little cottage in a weed-grown yard. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A few men, lean, wearing animal skins, look up at the gables of the king’s hall, or at the vultures circling casually beyond. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was sort of violet and still, the sky green paling into gold beyond the gable of the house and a plume of smoke rising from the chimney without any wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z With its rising towers, limestone columns, and jutting gables, it resembled a small fortress, as inaccessible as it was foreboding. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She was so tired she didn’t entirely trust herself to make the climb over the gables, not after two nights without sleep and a day spent wrangling supplies for their trek to the Ice Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The house was big, but not enormous, with lots of gables and even a turret. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The workbench took up a whole gable wall of the barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The mayor’s house is newer and made of a white stone that rises up four stories, the roof topped by a plethora of cupolas and gables, looking very fancy and imposing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The tank rolled past the affluent homes, the gables and turrets, the porte cocheres. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had had in the meantime more opportunity to observe the house; it was taller than it was broad, comprising four floors, with ivy covering much of the front right up to the gables. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I sawed wood and made a gable for the millhouse roof and shingles to cover it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A 72-inch TV slides down from a gable with the press of a button. Country house or city house, there’s a way to extend living space outdoors 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Outside, he put roofs over the bow windows—a typical Regency touch—and, with three new gables, the rear façade now has a pleasantly formal air as it looks over the sloping lawn. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z Guidebooks will tell you to take a “black taxi” tour to see these neighborhoods and the political murals on the gables of the red brick houses. Following ‘Game of Thrones’ to Belfast and Beyond 2013-07-05T17:34:29Z In Battery Park, the Battery Bee Sanctuary shelters thousands of bees insides hives designed to reflect New York’s architectural history, including tenement-style apartments and Dutch-style step gables. The Wellness World’s Buzzy New Best Friend 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z With the redesign of the Beachy House in 1906, Wright emphasized the style of the distinct gables and the wood, stucco, concrete and brick exterior. Tracing Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Successive Greek governments have lobbied for the return of the British Museum’s share of the works, which include statues from the Parthenon’s pediments — the all-marble building’s gables. Greece hopes marble foot will get UK to return sculptures 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Like “Riverdale,” “Chilling Adventures” is populated with appealing, complex teens, well acted and ably written, who are smothered in genre: in this case, lace collars, gables, and goat’s blood. “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and the Ever-Bleaker Archie Universe 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z She could see the new houses that were being built along the shorefront, huge modern boxes geometrizing upwards among the old gables. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z “It was the time of yuppies, so they put some yuppies in. And then they built the other side of the street and it just looked like Switzerland, all these white gables.” From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Yes, the houses get bigger every year, gables and gazebos come and go, but what is really striking about the McMansion is its vapid consistency as the decades pass. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z Finally, the beast emerges from its tidy cage of quatrains, to be spotted "cresting the gable/ of someone's roof" – only now it becomes a mere "graven image" without the poet's voice to give it life. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z The gables, which once faced the front of the building, now face the sides for a more pleasing look that shows off a new wood-shingled roof. Garage to Guest House 2012-08-30T18:20:09.703Z To my youthful mind, a gable hood was an improvement on Her Majesty's hats. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z It's a fine Georgian house, with a clock tower, and lovely gables that go up and down in steps rather than straight lines. TV review: Country House Rescue 2011-08-18T20:05:01Z Just the same as a month before,— The house and the trees,The barn's brown gable, the vine by the door,— Nothing changed but the hives of bees. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z I ducked into a squat, roughly 150-year-old Chinese temple with curved gables; the roof was partly collapsed but it was still active. Next Stop: A Pocket of the Past in Battambang, Cambodia 2011-12-15T21:22:50Z But he found himself admiring their triangular shapes with their steep, green-painted gables and vertical black siding. When Life Looks Like a Wes Anderson Movie 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z As a youngster, Montgomery visited relatives whose two-story farmhouse had dark green gables. ‘Anne of Green Gables’ is very much alive in Canada 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z With its triple-arched loggia and soaring scrolled gable—a nod to the Cape Dutch architectural influence—Brenthurst is often considered one of Baker’s most elegant residences. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z It is used in concentrated bursts against deliberately severe contexts, like overscaled sconces with fringed shades, or mantels in the form of a Cape Dutch scrolled gable. | The Great American Designs of Tom Scheerer 2013-08-21T13:00:58Z By contrast, the "big room" at Bear Creek feels like a cathedral, with its struts and open roof beams, wood-framed windows, Oriental rug and 30-foot-high gable window funneling soft streams of light. Family-owned Bear Creek Studio makes music and magic 2013-04-23T23:24:08Z The third-story terrace, with its view over Malacca's gables and red clay-tile roofs, is best enjoyed at sunset with a cool drink in hand. Bed Down Somewhere Real in Malacca 2011-07-07T14:20:00Z Mr. Yantrasast removed the low ceiling to expose the gable roof and create a soaring space. L.A. Reincarnation: New Art Spaces in Vintage Settings 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Their furniture, with dynamic diagonal supports and imposing scale, had “the presence of small buildings, complete with gables, balustrades, capitals, columns and doors,” Ms. Veith and Ms. Harvey write. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Porches, gables and shutters succumb to the punishing maritime climate and then the march of vegetation. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The firm’s towers almost never had flat tops; instead, they had pyramids or domes or lanterns or gables or, sometimes, a combination of them all. Eugene Kohn, Architect of Skyscraping Ambitions, Dies at 92 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Then I began to pass houses with gables and turrets and stone walls and copper gutters and huge bay windows and manicured lawns and circular drives. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z On the southern elevation, half the width of the first floor is set back, leaving south-facing balconies tucked into each gable end – a pleasing staggered rhythm that extends the length of the street. How social housing in Manchester has reinvented the back-to-back 2012-12-18T15:39:19Z The emblem shows the white horse of William of Orange – familiar to this day from many Northern Ireland gable paintings – and the flag of St George flying from Enniskillen castle. Export ban slapped on 18th-century army officer's cap 2012-10-04T16:05:56Z Closer, the exterior reveals fancy adornment, carved stone, colourful glazed ceramics, Dutch gables – showy work done when the Golden Lion was pulled down and rebuilt at the end of the 19th century. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Some are simple, but others have brightly painted roofs, gables and even chimneys. Anchorage’s oldest building, a Russian Orthodox church, gets new life in restoration project 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The Federation also has plans for a gable end mural near where the book was printed to commemorate the lasting legacy of Robert Burns in the town. Town celebrates Robert Burns' first book of poems 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z The mural covers the gable end wall of a 19th Century Category C listed building overlooking the narrow School Wynd. Council orders removal of 'gaudy' Pittenweem witch mural 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The entrance hall had its own gable tile roof. Japan has millions of empty houses. Want to buy one for $25,000? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z It is thought that the carvings which came from Holy Trinity include a flower and two gable ends. Mystery carvings came from dismantled royal church 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z That is where they built their current Colonial-style home with a gable roof and hardwood floors, three bedrooms and four full baths, according to local property records. Document discovery spotlights Biden’s frequent use of Wilmington home 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Successive Greek governments have lobbied for the return of the British Museum’s share of the works, which include statues from the Parthenon’s pediments - the all-marble building’s gables. British Museum reportedly in talks on Parthenon Sculptures 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z The townhouses offer traditional styling on the outside, including porches, gables and cornices that fit in with the surrounding housing. D.C. townhouses away from the ‘hustle and bustle’ 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z You can get motorized lifts with large articulating arms that allow you to safely paint that tall gable end on your home or reach a difficult sidewall above a steep roof. Looking to save money on your exterior house project? Try a little DIY 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z The countertops are reclaimed white oak, and the sink is soapstone from Albemarle County, Va. A stone gable wall with a seven-foot cooking fireplace was built from stones on the property. Historical Quaker Farm in Loudoun County for sale 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The three-level house, in the Langley Farms community, has a storybook feel with its stucco exterior, three gables and wood beams over the lower windows. T.J. Oshie puts his McLean, Va., house on market for $7.5 million 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Composite libraries are available with a composite arched or slanted roof, while wood libraries generally have a slanted metal shed roof or gable roof. Little Free Library: An attainable DIY project for booklovers of all skill sets | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Some have gable roofs; others have mansard roofs. Conviviality reigns in Kings Manor 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Naturalized nasturtiums softened hard edges, and sunflowers made their annual appearance, echoing details found on the home’s front gable. This meticulously planned and planted Queen Anne garden changes for the seasons in colorful echoes of a restored Victorian home 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z The eye-catching facade has two steeply pitched, overlapping gables, decorative brickwork and half-timbered framing that is distinctive of Tudor houses. Former home of Icelandic ambassador is on the market for $6 million 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z A man was captured on a doorbell camera walking past a house as its gable collapsed on to a street. Man filmed walking past Christchurch house wall collapse 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The house they bought was a 1½-story, brick Cape Cod/ranch-style hybrid that included a garage and two false gables on the roof. Taking the long road on a wish-list renovation 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z On the gable end of a house in a typical Anfield street is a newly painted mural of Jordan Henderson lifting the Premier League trophy. Life in football's cocoon – a photo essay 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z The building’s Greek Revival architectural details include its broad gable front with a recessed panel door, and corner pilasters reminiscent of columns. Theater complex, town hall named to national register 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Powered attic fans that sit on a roof or in a gable vent will satisfy their appetite for air from the source of least resistance. Perspective | Pedestal sinks are stylish. But how practical are they? 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Republicans and loyalists painted murals on buildings and gable walls, as a way of marking out territory and memorialising those lost throughout the 30-year conflict. The new 'heroes' on Northern Ireland's walls 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Set on half an acre, the English transitional-style house charms with its matching roof gables, arched front door and picture windows. Altadena charmer with Dodgers ties seeks $2.4 million 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Allowing the Godfrey team to enter through the garage doors - which were beneath the 21-foot peak of the brick gable wall - was a “greater risk than was necessary for the task,” the report states. Leadership failures cited in Illinois firefighter’s death 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z And his Highland Park home, El Alisal, features a Mission Revival-style gable and bell tower; it’s on the National Register of Historic Places. Mission Revival as an architectural movement helped sell California 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Even though Porter & Lockie was a pioneer of art deco in Washington, the firm designed the house as a traditional Tudor, with steeply pitched gable roofs, elaborate chimneys and decorative half-timbering. This house was a wedding gift worthy of a grand D.C. success story 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z For many residents of the eastern United States, the red gables of Friendly’s restaurants are nearly as recognizable as the golden arches of McDonald’s. Curtis Blake, co-founder of the Friendly’s ice cream chain, dies at 102 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The gable of the northern transept was strengthened overnight, he said. France Debates How to Rebuild Notre-Dame, Weighing History and Modernity 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z "Globally the structure is holding up well, but some weaknesses have been identified particularly in the vault and the gable of the northern transept, which have to be secured," he told reporters at the scene. Notre Dame’s destruction was ‘bound to happen’ after years of neglect and lack of keep up, expert claims 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The harmony Goodman pursued is apparent in the natural tone exteriors and the roofs, which come in low-sloped gable with overhanging eaves, flat or butterfly low-sloped V-shaped styles. Architecture, art and people: Three-part harmony in Fairfax County’s Hollin Hills 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Except for the cawing of crows nesting within an apartment building’s crumbling gables, the town was silent. Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Architectural features would include a gable roof atop two stories and a wraparound porch. Nonprofit envisions new housing at site of problem home 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z But the western gable, between the two bell towers, is leaning because of the weight of an angel statue, which was to be removed on Thursday. France Debates How to Rebuild Notre-Dame, Weighing History and Modernity 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Vinyl siding, brick and stone cladding, roof gables and dormers, and windows are varied so that no two houses will look alike. Flexibility is built into the plan at Potomac Reserve 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Above the corner, both in the photo and on my visits to Mama’s, were the three gables of the Wayne Apartments, a row built in 1890 and wonderfully still standing. An 1890 building proves not everything has changed in Belltown 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Start at Karlsplatz, not far from the main rail station, and stroll the half-dozen pedestrian-only blocks through a wonderland of pastel houses, stepped gables and windows dripping with geraniums, on down to the Rathaus. Brief, Breezy and Foolproof Itineraries to 6 European Cities 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The penchant for evocative artistry has been a staple of the architects’ catalog ever since—as has the gable, the closest thing H&dM has to a signature trope. Swiss Architecture Firm Herzog & De Meuron Celebrates 40 Years 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Crisply folded gables mark the dramatic portico roof and interior ceilings. A year after Hurricane Harvey delayed its debut, a home for modern drawings opens in Houston - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z “Oh, look at that,” Skaife said on the morning of my visit, as the male raven Harris joined Merlina on the gable. The secrets of the Tower of London’s royal ravenmaster 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z “Well-built framed homes may incur major damage or removal of roof decking and gable ends,” the agency warns. What is the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z “Well-built framed homes may incur major damage or removal of roof decking and gable ends,” the National Hurricane Center said of areas experiencing Category 3 winds. Hurricane Michael on collision course with Florida’s Gulf Coast as it quickly gains strength 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z It is recognizable as a traditional house, but instead of connecting the roof above the front door, Mr. Venturi left the gable open at the top. Robert Venturi, postmodern architect who argued ‘Less is a bore,’ dies at 93 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Some gables are halved and inverted, shaped to gently invite a pedestrian in, while stretched to maintain a brisk, horizontal roof-line along the street. A year after Hurricane Harvey delayed its debut, a home for modern drawings opens in Houston - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Inga Saffron, the architecture critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote in 2009 that “as less talented architects appropriated” historical elements, America’s highways became lined with “a kitsch-scape of pediments, gables and arches.” Robert Venturi, Architect Who Rejected Modernism, Dies at 93 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The house was severely damaged in the crash which left beds and household items protruding from the gable end of the newly built property. Men charged over fatal lorry house crash 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The newly-built house was severely damaged with beds and other household items hanging from the gable end. Fatal lorry house crash victim named 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The roof had three gables, fruit trees grew in the backyard, and the front porch gleamed with a fresh coat of paint. Special Report: Spiders, sewage and fees - the other side of... 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Michael recounted the story in his funeral address, and not long afterwards a large mural by the graffiti artist Maser appeared on the gable end of a house in Dublin. Seamus Heaney’s family on life with the great poet: ‘He was always just Dad at home' 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Spare logs were used to fill in its gable roof and replace others that were rotted or damaged. Original log home in Nebraska takes visitors back to 1890s 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Their winter door was in the gable in the second story. Opinion | The Northwest Passage That Might Have Been 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z We eat stew from a scorched iron pot over the fire, drink water from the peaty burn that runs by the gable end. ‘People think the deer are lovely. Then they learn more about it’: the deer cull dilemma 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Queen Anne is a subset of the 19th-century Victorian style, with ornate millwork, decorative shingles and prominent gables. Fate pending for ex-Waco church bought by ‘Fixer Upper’ pair 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z It was styled to match the owner’s house with a flying gable roof. Iowa construction company builds elaborate treehouses 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z In a nod to the walk street, the bedrooms become a community of bungalows with gable roofs. A dilapidated Venice bungalow is reborn as a 'crazy' family compound 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Colors for the exterior of the home - shades of pink, green and white - were inspired by a gift of decorative pieces for the gables. Historic homes tour reveals Idaho town’s past 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Most equipment would be housed in the building’s attic, save for a few small antennas attached to the building’s gable ends. Mount Rainier may soon be alive with sound of cellphones 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Gates restrict access to the side roads, where houses with shingles, decks and, increasingly, raised concrete foundations and multiple gables are packed closely together. Breezy Point, Queens: Tested by Hurricane Sandy 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “The tall stone gables, chimneys and terraces recall grand residential architecture of the British Isles or Lake Lucerne.” This Bellevue family’s romantic stone home evokes Old World Europe on Lake Washington 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Most of its homes were built in the early 1900s and are distinctively American Craftsman: low-pitched gable roofs, spacious porches, tapered columns. ‘Zombie homes’ cut values, spike crime in Roseburg district 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z She noted that building facades, gables and parapets — the brickwork that encircles a roof — are the cheapest to fortify, and the most likely to fall in an earthquake. An earthquake worse than the 'Big One'? Shattered New Zealand city shows danger of Seattle's fault 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z “Usually in a farm house, fun and quirky things are happening in those gables, so I try and do that as well.” Trend spotting: How to get the 'farmhouse modern' look 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The east end of the pavilion, the part showing here with five gables, hosted a variety of events, most involving dance. The first Alki Natatorium ended up swimming in snow 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Our house was white-painted wood with double gables, with an apricot tree in the front yard and lemon trees and an old asphalt badminton court out back. TV Chef Alton Brown on Working Out Recipes (and Issues) 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z From outside, all four pavilions share the same basic gable appearance and form. A special place for reflection and connection 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Among its Georgian features are a detailed cornice, a gable roof, stone lintels with keystones above the windows and a classic arched pediment around the front door. Stately Georgian in Old Town Alexandria was home to Robert E. Lee’s uncle 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The fieldstone-clad house, with limestone window and door surrounds and large slate gables, sits atop a heavily forested hill on 16 acres that overlook Tuxedo and We-Wah Lakes. Downplayed Abbey: The Makeover of a Mansion 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z A sign on a gable wall in Belfast’s, Loyalist Tigers Bay urging voters to leave the EU citing the Bible. EU referendum polling day: last opinion poll shows four-point remain lead - live 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The Georgian Colonial-inspired home, built in 1988 and renovated last year, has classic curb appeal, with white trim, Palladian windows and a pair of faux gables. Jean-Claude Van Damme knocks out a sale on the Westside 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Once the appointment is made, the removal of the stonework comprising the library window gable will be among the first jobs to be undertaken. 3D images of fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh building - BBC News 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z What homey perfection hides behind each cornice and gable, bay window and ornate lintel? Wary of Prying Eyes Online, a Brooklyn Home Tour Calls It Quits 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z “That is the genesis of part of the design of the Canal Dock building,” Wies said, referring to the gable he has put on the front to accommodate this piece of history. New Haven boathouse project approaches milestone 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z A sign on a gable wall in Belfast’s, Loyalist Tigers Bay urging voters to leave the EU citing the Bible. EU referendum polling day: last opinion poll shows four-point remain lead - live 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z He is the Dutch-born British monarch King William III, a man whose image is on many gable walls in Northern Ireland. Orange Order on the equator: Keeping the faith in Ghana - BBC News 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Our company specialized in restoring the Victorian “gingerbread” to the facades of the city’s townhouses, and I got pretty good at installing cornices, gable brackets, and window hoods, working high above the street. The Great Drought is upon us: Why California is America’s parched new normal 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Half a dozen small streets radiate outward from the center, lined with more cottages with gable roofs, broad porches and fanciful woodwork. A quaint bit of history tucked away near New Britain 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z The result was architectural design that trended toward clean and simple lines and omitted ornate design details that included arches and gables. The scientific reason why so many houses look the same 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Their gables, towers, domes, arched windows and inviting front porches, often trimmed in bright colors, create charming and whimsical streetscapes all over town. Neighborhoods: Cape May, NJ’s charming Victorian homes 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Exterior features twin gables, tile roof, original woodwork and moulding details, large sitting porch, lush landscaping, two greenhouses, brick patio, three-car garage, guest house; furniture also available. Inside the Beltway: GOP presidential hopefuls earn a ‘weed’ grade in Colorado 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The gable end of the house collapsed onto three cars which were parked on the driveway, a spokesman said. Man hurt as part of Oldbury house collapses onto cars - BBC News 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z His asymmetrical style featured gables, turrets and expansive porches that connected the interior of his houses to their typically spacious grounds and vistas. Francis Fleetwood, Architect Who Transformed the Hamptons, Dies at 68 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Scaffolding is due to be brought in to protect the roof gable ends from collapse. Oxford's Randolph Hotel blaze 'sparked by flambe work' 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Soon enough, the still verdant island is dotted with the steep, crow-stepped gables of New Amsterdam, as windmill vanes poke up over the treetops. On Time-Lapse Rocket Ride to Trade Center’s Top, Ghostly Glimpse of Doomed Tower 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Set on a corner lot, the renovated 1930s Tudor Revival is distinguished by a prominent gable and valley roofline, picture windows and drought-tolerant landscaping. Jason Statham acts fast to secure Beverly Hills showplace 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z “Besides the three ornate gables in the front facing facade, he added a ledge for flowerpots just under the second level window.” In Westchester, a Wisp of a Home Built in the Depression Seeks a Long Future 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z He recommended that some elements, perhaps a fireplace or a chimney or some of the gables, be incorporated into a pavilion or other architectural marker. Buying This Tudor Home in Westchester Comes With a Big Caveat 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The quaint, hand-painted murals enjoyed their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s when homeowners used to make money by renting a gable end to advertisers. Ghost signs given new lease of life 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z BBC Inside Out discovers the forgotten 'ghost signs' or old advertisement billboards which are found on gable ends across towns and cities in Britain. Celebrating 'ghost signs' 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, strong winds knocked down a gable wall on a street off west Belfast's Shankill Road. In pictures: Gales hit parts of UK 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Completed by Michelangelo in 1504 , the sculpture was originally commissioned to be placed on the gable of the Cathedral of Florence with other prominent figures from the Old Testament. Michelangelo’s David is no ‘lawn gnome’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Some historic buildings have been demolished, including the grandiose 1895 government house resplendent with turrets and gables, and the house where the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, lived in the late 1920s. In Myanmar, Racing to Save a Colonial Past in Decay 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z The second level of the south facade was designed in the Queen Anne style and included a gable with a Gothic arch and the words “Masonic Block.” EXCHANGE: Lodge is a historic part of Plainfield 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Its brick facade and gable roof only hints at what lies behind the front door. House of the Week | Bethesda Cape Cod for $1.499M I drive by it going to the post office and grocery and grimace each time I see the window in one gable that’s at least a foot off center. Defects in a house under construction His use of gables and repetitive decorative dormers are more of a residential touch, and the central spire of the main hospital building is more decorative than anything else, Cunningham said. Defunct sanatorium at center of new state park 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z “He took cues from his travels in Europe,” Mr. Lord said, “from the stepped gables, to the English cluster chimneys, to the Italianate pagoda. Sunnyside was iconic even in Irving’s day.” Exploring Washington Irving’s Hudson Valley Haunts 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The instructions, with detailed photos, run 20-plus pages and read like this: “Trim gable angle on Dormer Back pieces.” Leave Your Wings at the Door 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Often I would be lookimg at a gable, or some fretwork, or a picture, while she monologued in her offhand way about something totally unconnected, usually sexual. Paul Theroux and the London of Lady Max 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The novelist and poet, who died in 1832, designed it himself, with crow-stepped gables and Scots baronial turrets and crenelated balconies. Shaking off the 'kilted straitjacket' 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The work will also feature Flemish bond brickwork, slate roofs and gables creating aesthetic continuity with the west and north ends of campus. Correction: William and Mary Renovation story 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z To blend the old and new, the Patches used the same window configuration and distinctive wood trim on the gables. Ted Patch proves you can go home again, fixing his parents’ old house for his family But your finished home will have dormers and gables! Leave Your Wings at the Door 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Anne Spencer’s place on Pierce Street is both cozy and stately, with red brown shingles, a raised seam roof and a proud gable. Where the Harlem Renaissance blossomed in Virginia, with poet Anne Spencer The design of the former headquarters tower is a post-modern interpretation of 16th century French architecture with octagonal turrets at each corner and a steeply pitched copper mansard roof with triangular gables and turrets. Former Home Savings headquarters in downtown Los Angeles sold 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Inspired by the cottages of Cotswold, England, this whimsical home combines rolled-roof edges, half-timber accents and a large eyebrow-shaped gable above the front porch. The Cotswolds in Pasadena 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z It is tall in the middle and pulled back in the front and back with small gables at either end. Friendship Heights home features good design, on many levels A triangular front gable will gain stepped edges, to bring it in line with the original. Greenwich Village Condo: A Nod to the Past 2014-02-21T21:24:23Z Morrow says it was only the thickness of her premises' gable end wall that prevented the shop from being burned to the ground. Come fire or high water: how businesses make it back from the brink 2013-05-30T07:00:00Z We all live together in a sprawling Queen Anne house with half a dozen gables, two round towers, and a wraparound porch, not far from the center of town. Steven Millhauser: “Thirteen Wives.” 2013-05-20T04:00:00Z Displayed on a gable end on York's Lord Mayor's Walk, the 1920s sign proclaims the efficacy of bile beans. Future of 'ghost signs' questioned 2013-02-06T15:07:03Z "But hip roofs are definitely better than gable roofs." City Room: Less Bronx-Whitestone Bridge Yielded More Stability During Hurricane Sandy 2013-01-04T22:32:27Z A slate roof will replace shingles, and bricks that were removed from the southern facade and interior walls will be reused in the gable, Mr. Chalme said. Greenwich Village Condo: A Nod to the Past 2014-02-21T21:24:23Z A flat roof will replace what Mr. Pasquarelli describes as the faux historic gables on the existing structure. Square Feet: Moving Ahead to Update the Pier 17 Mall 2012-12-25T21:54:11Z Instead, its neighbors are low-rise apartment buildings and rambling — in some cases, run-down — Victorian houses with porches and gables. | Marble Hill: Attached to the Bronx, but Legally in Manhattan 2012-11-17T07:30:39Z A string quartet played the classics, Vivaldi and Beethoven, below the towering Church of St. Nicholas, set on a cobbled square fringed with distinctive Hanseatic gables. Letter From Europe: Germans Wrestle With Losing Gains 2012-07-30T11:30:06Z In 1727 the stone was blown down in a storm but re-erected against the east gable of the church, according to the database. Work starts on ancient monument 2012-07-26T00:08:41Z The wooden staircases and gables of the 1926 villa that was built for a piano maker hint at its past elegance. Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre 2012-07-20T15:34:56Z Counsel for Mr Fulton, Richard Smith, said it was a word used by subversives and "more commonly painted on gable walls". Tribunal hears of agent contempt 2012-07-12T17:20:01Z The gable wall-sized mural on Sandy Row is one of the most photographed of the Troubles. Sandy Row UFF mural painted over 2012-06-01T16:29:01Z It may be easily known from the stack of chimneys and the gable ends, which are to be seen, look at it which way you will. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z Henry Denesson, the indispensable, soon had to be hired again to set up some woodwork in a tenement in Precherch Street, and to build a gable there. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The Manor House is very old; such quaint little oriel windows, and turrets, and gables. A Soldier's Son 2012-04-27T02:00:37.640Z His mother, who did not know of the change, calling one afternoon, sat on an easy chair, close by the gable window, knitting. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z In the older part of the town the streets are narrow, and contain a number of high turreted houses with quaintly adorned gables. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Only one gable of the old Church of St Mary’s remains. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Far up, the Carillon did search10 The wind; and the birds came to perch Far under, where the gables wound. Poems on Travel 2012-04-23T02:00:31.163Z They have grown since then, and now beneath their spreading branches only a pointed roof or a whitewashed gable can be caught sight of through the rifts in the foliage of the trees. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z It is abundantly lighted through gable lights and roof lights. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z The Cheveron, a word found In medieval building accounts for the barge-boards of a gable, is an Ordinary whose form is explained by its name. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z It is said that he clomb the still standing tower or gable of the old church so high that he found it impossible to get down, and was in a position of great danger. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z The massive old building, broken by many a projection and varied by many a gable, stood, like the mansion of some rich proprietor, in a vast wooded lawn. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z I very much admired the situation of Spiez; it is built on a rock, which projects into the lake, with numbers of turrets, and gables, and peaks. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Every line, every road, every gable, every tower, has some story of the past present in it. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z I remember, in particular, a mossy old cottage, rough and grey; the front clothed with vines, the quaint long gable running down behind to within a yard of the ground. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Alas! only the echoes came back, the pert jackdaws cried out insolently far above him and mocked him in a clamorous crowd from the ruined gables. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z She walked very fast, never giving a glance to the step-and-stair gables of the old houses, the dominant strength of the belfry, the curious, un-English groups in the streets. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z The gable of the church is faced with modern mosaics of saints. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z And above and beyond all only the bright blue sky, the roofs and gables of the nearer houses showing dark against it. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z The moon rose clear of the roof, outlining the stately chimneys and gables and flooding with cold light the lower part of the lawn. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z There were people coming and going in the dark filthy lane where this happened--a place where smoke-grimed gables almost met overhead, and the gutter was choked with refuse--but no one interfered. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Behind, in the semicircular choir, is an ancient episcopal throne, supported by lions, and ending in a gothic gable. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The tower of the great minster, seen row for the first time, rose in stately brightness above the red roofs and quaint gables and the rows of dormer windows. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z These houses were older than the opposite row, were irregularly built, and piled high with gables and crooked chimneys. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z The forgeman then cuts the gable of the crank as at e g, and rounds up the body and neck as at b n, Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The stags' heads on the portico and on the apex of the gable refer to the legend of the conversion of St. Eustace. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Seldom had a Coton moon peeped over the gables at a scene stranger than that which met the sheriff's eyes, as with his two backers he passed under the gateway. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Upon the second crest, and in the cleft between the two, are huddled together the steep alleys and crazy tottering houses, all corners and gables, of the old town. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z None of the chimneys emitted smoke; but Sophia, following the man's eyes, saw that, early as it was, and barely inclining to dusk, a small window in the gable end showed a light. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The crank is afterwards cut at the off gable at g, Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z They saw a frame house with a peaked gable on Adelphi Street in the Fort Greene Historic District. | The Hunt ? Old, Roomy and Stroller-Friendly 2012-03-16T01:57:29Z Ay, shaking, for was not this the fulfillment of that boyish vow I had made in my little room in the gable yonder, so many years ago? The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z The house that, viewed at its best, had a bald and melancholy aspect, wore a villainous look now--perched up there in bare, lowering ugliness, with its blind gable squinting through the ragged fir-trees. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z On the left of the steep road stood two cottages; on the right the gable end of a larger house rose heavily from the hillside, and from the sparse gorse bushes that bestrewed it. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He could not turn his gaze from a knot of ruffians, who were gathered under one of the tottering gables on the farther side of the street. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Mediæval houses—narrow, lofty, terminating in quaint, pointed gables—overhang the sluggish waters. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z I glanced up at a lattice in one of the gables--the window of Petronilla's little parlor. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z This belonged to a club-house, which was farther up the hill, and whose turrets and gables shining in the morning sunlight, looked like those of an old castle. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z These were connected by rods, enclosed in pipes, with the hands on the dial plates at either gable. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z In every window of the gable end which faced his hiding-place he fancied an eye watching his movements; in every distant step he heard the footfall of doom coming that way to his discovery. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z A wooden cross fastened in the gable of a house was miraculously preserved from burning. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 2012-03-06T03:00:26.127Z It has a medieval town hall, and interesting houses with high gables and wood-carved fa�ades of the 15th and 16th centuries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The guide-book calls it neat and Flemish, probably because it has fewer houses with high gables turned towards the street than can be seen, as a rule, in any Scotch town. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The stepped gable at the chancel end of the church is an unusual feature in English architecture.... Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z He asked if the child were safe, and just at that moment the little white-clad figure of a child about six years old appeared at one of the upper gable windows. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z We laid across the top of this door-way the rudder of the "Hope," and erected on it the "gable." North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The western gable which rises in the centre into a double belfry contains a pointed door-way, and above, but not immediately over this, is a double round-arched window. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z The houses were mostly new; a few turned old gables and chimneys to the street. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The original building was of but one story, with gable ends. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Passing beneath the gable end of the summer-house they descended the steep, rutted lane which led to the mill. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z From window and dormer, from low door-ways, from carven eaves and gables, gaunt faces looked down on the stir, and pale lips prayed, and dull eyes glowed with hope. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z One small narrow light occupies the eastern gable. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z Next to that was the cottage with the high green gables and diamond-shaped window-panes, where the Waltons had lived one summer while their new house was being built. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z Its peaked gables, with pine-apples carved in wood surmounting its latticed windows, and colossal chimney, put it unmistakably in the age of ruffs, Spanish cloaks, and long rapiers. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The west side of the house is perhaps the oldest part, and bears a date of James First's time on its two narrow gables. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z But the fact is, my friend, my house ends with the second gable. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z We have these adorable peaks and gables to hang things on. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z The cottages are not near each other; gardens and fields lie between; and at the gable of every house is a wooden horse or horse's head; from the old Saxon times, you know. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z It is an antique edifice of some architectural pretensions, displays five fine gables, and has spacious wainscoted and frescoed apartments, with quaint mantels and other evidences of colonial stateliness. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z Massy ivy mantles its walls, climbs to its gables, overruns its roofs, peeps in at its tiny-paned casements; doves coo upon its ridges. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Then I stammered, 'But this third gable--I saw no door in it, Herr Krapp.' My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Rain fell in torrents on the roof of the hospitable House of the Open Door, and the wind howled dismally around its friendly gables. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z The doors were at the eastern and western extremities, which were the gable ends, one door being in each end. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Do you see yonder turreted building, with high pointed gables and castellated walls, in the Elizabethan style, just beyond the Grass Market. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z The principal fa�ade which presents along the court is imposing and stately, but on every side are pointed gables, stone balustrades, and picturesque walls. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Two more, and, stooping, I could touch, with my right hand, the tiles of the little gable, while my left, raised above my head, still clutched the rope. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The grand old patrician houses of the days of its Hanseatic glory, with their lofty and often elaborately ornamented gables and their balconied windows, are the delight of the visitor to the town. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z This was government house, and through an opening in the leafy enclosure, the light of a taper was seen brightly shining from a small diamond-pane casement, in one of the gable ends of the edifice. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The reading-rooms also suffered, the south gable having fallen into the street beneath. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z It is a long, rambling, low-eaved fabric, with many heavy gables and chimneys, and steep roofs of tiles. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z At the windows, on the roofs, peering over balconies and coping-stones and gables, and looking out of doorways were more faces, all red in the torchlight. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Rattlesnakes abound in these parts; they showed us many of their skins stuffed, and one very large one was hung up on the 99 37 gable end of a house. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Let artists tell of its towers and finials, flying buttresses, gables, cornices, galleries, piers, fa�ades. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z He never saw our Adam ceilings and fireplaces, we never saw his row of gables along the River front except in Canaletto's drawing of the old Watergate which our windows still overlook. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z It is a severely plain and substantial two-storied structure of stone with steep gables. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z I scanned it with greedy eyes, its steep gable, its four windows one above another, its carved weather-boards. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z He had appointed his house for our rendezvous, where we saw the skin of the bear, lately taken, nailed up against the gable end to dry. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z The five windows of the nave are of the earliest and best Perpendicular, and its eastern gable is crowned with three beautifully proportioned pinnacles. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The faces of the rock-tombs sometimes end with a flat framework of beams, at others with a gable in low relief. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z This side-street was narrow and exceeding dark, for the storeys of the houses on each side projected one above the other until the gables nearly met at the top. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z The roof was gone--burned off; but the rooftree, charred and soot-begrimed, still ran from gable to gable. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Turning to the right, on the opposite side of the High p. 95Street, we soon reach a stone-fronted edifice, with small windows and three gables, known as The Poor Travellers’ House. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z The reredos consists of five spandrels surmounted by gables, and is made of alabaster, lavishly gilt and bejewelled, inlaid with mosaic. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z It was a low, straggling, irregular structure, built of dark red brick, with wings and gable ends, and must originally have looked more like a comfortable farm-house than a nobleman's seat. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z The thatched house with crow-stepped gables in Church Street, in which Hugh Miller the geologist was born, still stands, and a statue has been erected to his memory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z The upper stories jutted out; the beams on which they rested were finely carved, the gables were finished off with rich, wooden pinnacles. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z It is curiously decorated with Sussex tiles, and has an ivy-clad gable and long window in stained cathedral glass. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z On the highest gable stands a figure representing Christ in Glory, His hand held forth to bless His people. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z We sat together on the shavings that littered the bench before the high gable window, and looked out over the brooks and the woods and the ponds. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Some of the most beautiful of these designs are the gable crosses of the old churches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z It was a large house of four stories, three gables in width. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Only the gables of a few houses can be seen from the river, whose banks of yellow clay and brown mud are here twenty-five feet high. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Finial, fin′i-al, n. the bunch of foliage, &c., at the termination of the pinnacles, gables, spires, &c., in Gothic architecture. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Above the upper gallery is a triangular gable with a rose window in the centre, surrounded by three triangular windows, a symbol of the Trinity. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z Never have I seen such finely pointed, tent-shaped roofs, such delicately tapered gables, such carving, and such tracery. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Young's Hotel, which had been engaged for the Expedition, was gaily decorated with flowers, rare forest plants, and ferns, while from the gable floated side by side the British and Austrian standards. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z Tall houses, with gables facing the street; few of them showing any light from their windows, and their dark outlines discernible on high against the midnight sky. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z For instance, a stone shield in the gable of one of the dormer windows had remained blank when all the rest were carved—simply because of a hesitation how best to fill it up. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Sometimes the masonry or brickwork rises through two or three storeys and the half-brick work is confined to the gables. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z We must settle out some little place for them to pray in—there's a high gable over there where we could hang a bell—— Paul Ruttledge. Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre 2011-12-21T03:00:25.100Z All exposed surfaces are circular, and withstand greater wind pressure, as the wind can get no direct hold, as on the sides or gable ends of a rectangular barn. Economy of the Round Dairy Barn 2011-12-18T03:00:20.633Z And her background was of twisted streets, dark alley-ways and leaning gables.... The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Where are the lofty pinnacled bergs I expected to see, the rocks and towers of ice, the green glistening gables, and the tall spires, like a hundred cathedrals dang into one?” Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Night owls were silently chasing each other round the gables; the windows were shut, the ground-floor secured with shutters strongly battened. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z On the eastern slope was a little chapel with a gable surmounted by the image of Our Lady and at her feet two little figures each representing a bull. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z The cottage has its door in the gable, and is windowless, save for some holes ’twixt thatch and eaves, through which light is now glimmering. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Even the wind, swirling boisterously around the gables of Heath Hover, seemed to sound the same note, but it was not snow-laden this time, for autumn had not yet fairly gone out. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z It was a small frame house painted light gray, with a gable back and front, and a narrow porch running across it. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z One of the gable ends of the farmhouse, undermined by the force of the current, fell down with a loud noise, and a part of the roof was giving way at the same time. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z Just as in Switzerland the gables of the chalets match the pine-clad slopes and lofty summits of the mountains, so in Greece, amid barer hills of less elevation, the Greek temple looks thoroughly in place. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z He peeped out at the little gable window in the garret where he lay. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z When they gained the sluice, Varne stood expatiating afresh, on gables and old chimney stacks. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Such soarings aloft, such chasings round the pinnacles of the church-tower and the gables of the farmhouses, no wonder that they cannot contain themselves for joy. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z In a few minutes, the gable end where the chimney was built, in its turn, sank into the abyss. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z Whether the group can have originally been fitted into the gable of a temple is a matter of dispute. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Then she repeated what she had already said: “Up, up! over gable and tower, over land and sea, over hill and dale, to my dearest who waits for me in the hill!” The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z A renewed whirl of dismal wind round the gables of the house, and a fine clatter of sleet against the windowpanes as they began their meal. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Miss Longmuir darted round the gable of the house, a wild and summoning cry followed, the call of the terrier who has run his rat to ground. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z May was in heaven, and kept having raptures over the gables, the turrets with storks on them, the fountains, people, and churches. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z From the western and loftier gable let there rise, at the end nearest the mountain, a stunted tower. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z It was built in a quaint yet pretty fashion, with many wings and gables and broad verandas on every side. Dot and Tot of Merryland 2011-11-12T03:00:34.677Z Their most common form, as you know, is a simple shed composed of a roof with two gable ends, covered either with tiles or thatch, and supported on strong timbers well braced together. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z I recalled her to the question of the chimneys, pointing out that the gable chimney was half down, and could not be left as it was. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Narrow streets with overhanging gables, distracting roofs, windows, and porches, carved beams, and every sort of richness. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Here we have a fair representation of the Pillar mass: the tower will be the High Man, and the gable from which it rises the Low Man. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z The churches are heavily constructed, and in a style peculiar 187to Lithuania, their gable ends fronting the street, and terminated at each corner by a square spire, with a low dome between them. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Its dark, low gables and quiet smoke might easily be distinguished from where they stood. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z We commonly slept up-stairs, and at the gable end of the house there was a window. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. 2011-11-07T02:00:17.560Z The opposite end is very different, and has a hipped or gambrel gable. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z The gable ends are generally broad slabs and rounded off to the ridge pole. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z Each too had its label of stone superincumbent, and projecting from the brick-work, which might leave the period of construction somewhat doubtful—but the gables decided the fact. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z When newly embellished, looking like the pattern, black and white, of some discreet magpie perched on the wooden pinnacles terminating each gable, or hopping saucily about the porch,—that never-failing adjunct to these homely dwellings. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z That shadow cast by the gable makes a blackness in which anything may lurk, and it is the secrecy of the shadow in a world of light that is the soul of romance. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Approached from the north or city side, it presents a sharp gable in the old English style of architecture. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z It is fifteen feet long, by seventeen feet high to the summit of the gables, by eleven feet in breadth. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z It is now entirely vacant and stands on the side of the dam opposite the saw mill, the gable end of the old shop facing the road. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z Just behind Julius Shawe's house, and between that and the garden, there was a recess formed by the gable of a large barn not quite reaching the adjacent wall. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z She stood there a while, looking across at the spreading gables of her own brown bungalow, with the yearning on her face that only house-mothers know. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z On the opposite bank of the river stood an old hall, while further on, at some distance, he could perceive through the trees the gables and chimneys of another ancient mansion. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z There is a stone leaning against the eastern gable with a rudely cut opening which seems to have been the head of the more ancient window. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z Then she turned anxiously, looking down the road, and there to her joy saw the stone gable of the great barn high on its knoll in the distance. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z Judith's father glanced at the sun-dial on the gable of the barn. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z As they came nearer the church, they could discern the park behind their own house, and in it the gables of the large hospital. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z It is divided into three equal portions each of which is surmounted by a gable containing what was at one time a wheel window. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Behold up yonder, high above it on the hillside, the granite gables of “Ard House” peeping out above the trees. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z A partially ruined house on the road-side had its front and one gable end entirely covered with a solid wall of sandbags, but these were the only obvious indications of occupation. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z The gables of the houses were all gilded in the rays of the setting sun. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z There is one dead tree at the gable of this inn, which—half a century ago, perhaps—may have been a country hostelry surrounded by meadows and hedges. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Following the line of the gable is an extremely effective gallery of elegant double columns and pointed arches, one of the great features of Pisan Gothic so prominent in the churches of Lucca. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z We came to a part of the road at last where the gable end of a pretty porter’s lodge peeped over the trees, and here pulled up. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z But there was no need to tell Billie to stand by to strike the flag that hung motionless above the gable where the old billiard-room and gun-room had been thrown together to make the schoolroom. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z These are typically brick, two- or three-story homes that feature a gable roof, a front door centered on the house and symmetrical windows spaced on either side. A little architectural knowledge can go a long way for homeowners 2011-09-30T14:19:57Z Ransey placed the two turkey’s eggs on a shelf near the little gable window. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z A third follows the line of the gable under a heavy cornice. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z He very likely belongs to that pretty cottage whose redbrick gable peeps out through a cloudland of trees yonder. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z It cannot be a corruption from borough-gable, because all burgesses had to pay gable. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:34.553Z Ornament of roof-tile, found "on the gable of a small Greek church, that appears to have been on the site of 262 a temple" "in the gardens at Athens, beyond Mount Anchesmus." A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z A long, long row of white palaces, with irregular gables, loomed through the mist and the gleam. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z The next is cut off at either end by the angle of the gable; the columns diminish in size with the slope of the aisle roof. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Nine years ago this hotel was a very small one indeed, but all gables, thickest thatch, and climbing roses and honeysuckle. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z In one of them, nearest the gate, high up aloft, and close under the gables, there gleamed a brighter light than all the others. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z Now, only a few large marble pillars remained standing; some were plain, unadorned columns, others were surmounted by the square stones of a gable. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Sam offered to help build the pigeon-coop on the gable end of the carriage-house, where the birds could alight without molestation. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z The third is in a line with the clerestory of the nave, and the topmost diminishes with the gable, which is carried beyond and above the ridge of the roof of the nave. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Across the end of the hall are similar panellings and the seats, with corresponding tables, of the women's daïs; behind these and in the gable wall is a high narrow door with a rounded top. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z They were everywhere trailing in vines over the hedgerows, supported on their own sturdy stems or climbing high over the gables and wings of the grand old hall. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z A few hundred paces in the rear of the fort, stood the ample dwelling-house of the Lord Proprietary with its gables, roofs, chimneys and spires, sharply defined against the eastern sky. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z His quick glance went like a bullet through the trees to a red gable and the gilt hands of a clock just visible beyond. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Its columns support round arches that are surmounted in piers by crocketed gables, pierced and cusped. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z And in a whisper I bade my Saguenay go around to the south gable and keep his eye on the gate and the Johnstown Road on the mainland. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Various old gables, pilasters, columns, walls, tympanums, and gates have been grouped; and in the eastern part of the garden is the house of the Director of the Museum. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Moving slowly by the house—so doubly noisy, so harshly discordant, against the large, serene, nocturnal life—he came against the gable of an open window. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z But the most unusual feature was that the abodes possessed pitched or gable roofs, built with rafters. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Then comes the strange and airy feature of this remarkable fa�ade—a false gable with two galleries ending in a pointed apex. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z "We were quite near here, on the gable of a house," said Marie. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z I followed him, and could soon hear the pitiful cries of a sparrow, up near a spout that comes out from under the wooden eave of the tallest gable of the cottage. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z Here a gaudily painted gable thrust itself out of the white sheet; there, through a proscenium of clinging wool, one saw the gray interior of a machine-room. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z These buildings may have resembled the crude St. Augustine mission of 1566, the earliest Spanish church in this country, which was constructed of vertical plank walls and with a gable roof. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Standing on canopied turrets at each end of the gable are angels blowing bronze horns. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z It is in one of the many gables of the old mansion that abuts upon a green lawn, or brae, sloping somewhat steeply down to the river’s bank. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z The Romanesque was being supplanted everywhere when the Angevin style came into being, as a compromise between the heavy, flat-roofed style of the south and the pointed sky-piercing gables of the north. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Ah Sing's grog-shop, with its colonnades and porticoes and fussy gables and fantastic cornices terminating in pigtail curlicues, was a squalid place for all the ornamentation cluttered on it. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z For the most part you may recognize the Jacobean by Cupid's bow lines in house gables, door heads, window heads, and stair balusters. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z At the back of this false gable a flight of steps ascends from the roof to the statue. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Above the walls rose a gigantic roof with four chimneys in the middle, and two dovecotes at the gables. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Above rises a balustrade with fantastic gargoyles with the pinnacles and fleurons of the window gables all very ornate, the whole topped off with a roofing of slate. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z In the 16th century in England variety was given to the outline of the gable by a series of alternating semi-circular and ogee curves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Even so, the Virginian did not long relish an "ugly," though perhaps picturesque, catslide gable; therefore, he once more began to build symmetrically, at the same time keeping his little back "cells." Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Under the centre gable, surrounded by a square frame of Gothic niches filled with half-length figures of saints, is an immense round window devoid of all tracery, but filled with good glass. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z It was a large structure of many queer gables, wings and projections, and fronted upon a road which had been used to communicate with some thoroughfare further inland. No title 2011-08-23T02:00:29.833Z In Gien's main street there are a multitude of rare mellowed old houses with sculptured fronts and high gables. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z In Holland, Belgium and Scotland a succession of steps was employed, which in the latter country are known as crow gables or corbie steps. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z When such gables became symmetrical, we may assign the examples to the Late Cell type. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Elegant turrets with crocketed pinnacles surmounted by saints are on either side of this gable. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z It had a deeply recessed doorway with four wooden columns extending up two stories to support the gable. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z The gables and the roof, the curious mullioned windows, the chimney-stacks, the coat of arms and fantastic gargoyles, then the trees and arbours grew upon the paper. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The gable corresponds to the pediment in classic buildings where the roof was of low pitch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z All the openings have segmental arches, and high up on the brick gables are lines of glazed header bricks parallel to the rakes. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The two other gables are flanked by towers, each with a solid turret. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z There stood the walls with black borders to the doors and windows and along the gables, proving that the building had been a prey to the flames. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z The whole architrave is surmounted by a weather moulding in the form of a gable, with a recently executed cross in the style of the thirteenth century at the top. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z In the middle ages the gable end was invariably parallel to the roof and was crowned by coping stones properly weathered on both sides to throw off the rain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z The chimney stacks are Tudor, three in number, set diagonally on their bases at each gable. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The purest piece of architecture is the gallery which is between the centre and these two side gables. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Commandant de Villiers assured him that nothing would happen, if he put a white flag on the gable of his house as a sign that he was a non-combatant. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z In the gable of the South Transept is a very beautiful rose window, which is hidden by the stone groining from the inside. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z Gabled Towers, in architecture, are those towers which are finished with gables instead of parapets, as at Sompting, Sussex. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Another row example with gables facing the street lay about a thousand feet north of the Brick Church at Jamestown. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The gables themselves rise above the roofs of the nave and aisles. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Underneath was the house, and round the tiled gables the swallows were busy going to and fro their nests. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z In the gable we placed furs and instruments. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z His eyes rested on the suave lines of the Elizabethan house, with its softened gables and its banked terraces. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Of these four habitations, the two nearest the river had floor plans similar to that of the "First State House," already described, except that the gables adjoined one another. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Three stilted arches of Moorish design with cable mouldings, the central arch larger than the other two, support a rather low gable. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The plain parish church, with its three sharp gables, contains nothing of special interest. The Story of the Toys 2011-08-05T02:00:49.720Z Here, under oak trees, one may sit, mark a clean reflection of the farmhouse upon the water, and regard the window of the birth chamber opening on the western gable of the homestead. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z Wick farmhouse is thatched, and has many gables hidden with ivy. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It is a single nave and possesses some interesting medieval features: buttresses; pointed and mullioned windows; gables of crow-steps or "tabled offsets"; and a raised tile chancel floor. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The face of this gable is covered with a good scheme of decoration. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Though “wild as a hawk” is a proverbial phrase, yet hawks are bold enough to enter gardens, and even take their prey from the ivy which grows over the gable of the house. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z We occupied the two big gable rooms looking east on the second floor of the Kellers' house in the market square of Autun. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z At one end of the farmhouse, which is an irregular building, there is a quiet gable, and in it a casement arched over by the thatch, and shaded by a thick growth of ivy. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The stepped gables were modelled upon those of "St. Luke's Church," often called the "Old Brick Church," Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The fa�ade rises with a course of open Gothic work to the gable above, and is divided into five sections which terminate in clusters of Gothic turrets surmounted by pinnacles and statues. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z His house was the most handsomely decorated of any, and from the gables there actually flew the light-blue and silver colors of the Baranowski. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z Alida, it seemed, was in the pleasant gable parlour which, with so much anxious forethought, we had fitted up for her. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z If the hurricane roughs up the straw on all the ricks, in the parish, unroofs half-a-dozen sheds, and does not spare the gables of the dwelling-houses, why he has work for the next two months. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It is possible that the "First State House" itself had three hips contiguous to one another instead of the three gables which we have drawn herein. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The fa�ade terminates in a gable, with a lean-to on either side. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z This data bonanza serves to regulate irrigation pumps, greenhouse vents, exhaust fans, gable shutters and shade curtains. Want Fresher Produce? Leave Dirt Behind 2011-08-02T22:57:55Z The Last Judgment, in the gable, was severely damaged by shell splinters. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z In the thatch—under the eaves of the cellar, which are not more than four feet from the ground and come up to the ivy of the gable—the wren has a nest. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Before its destruction, it comprised one "hall," twenty feet by twenty, with a great projecting fireplace at one gable big enough for an eight-foot log to burn. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The centre gable overlaps the portal beneath, and the apexes of the two side gables are beyond the middle of the two side portals. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The two Carabins doubtless thought the same, for they took down at once their waistcoats, which were hanging on the gable, to go away. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z The balustrading and triangular gable flanked with pinnacles, which dominate the gallery, date from the beginning of the 16th century, but have been repaired in recent times. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z Then the boys began searching hurriedly, and after a quick glance about the open and lighter space before them, went pushing their quest farther and farther into the distant dark of the wings and gables. America First 2011-07-15T02:00:25.100Z But the most distinguishing feature of "Bacon's Castle" is the Jacobean "curvilinear" gable at each end. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z This is open in the nave, and covered at the west end, where it follows the slope upwards of the gables of the aisles. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Only the big honey-coloured moon threw a primrose light upon the topmost gables of the houses on the left side of "The Lane"—all the rest being black velvet, sombreness and shadow. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z The tympanum of the gable above the great flamboyant window is arranged on a Gothic pediment. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z But just at that moment the boys came noisily back from the distant wings and gables. America First 2011-07-15T02:00:25.100Z These gables possess round members—"cuspings"—and steps, built pretty much the same way in which they were made in England and the Low Countries. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z There was but one room above stairs, a large chamber immediately over the parlor in the central building, and lighted by the fan-light in the front gable. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Its weather-beaten Wheel and gable by the creek? Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Of greater interest is the library, situated under the gables, and which is reached by a fine staircase. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z Next day I sent for the village mason and asked him to set a long ladder against the well-head of the fall pipe, and examine the valley between the gables. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z But by 1670 the whole pile, with its three front gables facing the James River, had gone up in flames. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Our beds stood parallel, but sufficiently far apart, with their heads against the north, or back wall, and their feet toward the front gable, lighted by the fan-shaped window aforesaid. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Above the tangled trees it heaves Its gables and its haunted eaves. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z The gable has been rebuilt in modern times. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z We went out at the back of the house, and ascended the bank till we were on a level with the broad gutter between the gables. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Not all row dwellings had gables across the front; some buildings were joined end to end, their gables party walls. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The central building was finished by a gable roof front, with a large single fan-shaped window just above the front portico. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z The walk, though clad with moss and tender lichens, appeared nowhere dismantled; yet might an eye, anxious after picturesque forms, be offended with the uniform angles and strait lines of the gable ends and parapets. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z On the gable is a colossal Annunciation; the Archangel and Mary are under Flamboyant canopies. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z Down crashed the gable trees, ripping beams and rafters from their beds; frozen clods of earth rattled from the roof and thumped into the snow. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The buttresses, the crow-stepped gables, the pointed windows at "St. Luke's" are all original medieval features. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Hear you, now, how they are singing there, by the old stone house with the pointed gable? The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z The three wanderers occasionally looked behind them, as if they apprehended a pursuit; but they only beheld the white gable ends of Esrom monastery, which they had passed a short time before. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z The architects of the 14th century built the lateral parts forming the first storey of the towers, the Kings' Gallery and the gable. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z The roof of cedar shakes projected over the gable, shading the low-browed entrance from the sun in summer, and protecting it in winter from the high-piled snows. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z The main fa�ade, one hundred and thirty-six feet long, is distinguished by a "break-front" or projecting bay on the center, crowned by a steeply pitched gable—the motif being repeated on the courtyard side. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Here he stopped, and looked carefully before him, in the direction of the gable window of his house, which, in the deepening twilight, he could just perceive. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z All was now quiet at the monastery; nothing was to be heard but the howling of the storm through the chimney and around the high gable ends of the roof. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z The sculptures in the archings depict scenes from the Passion, while the group which adorns the gable represents The Crucifixion. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z It had a picturesque appearance, with its quaint gable ends and mullioned windows. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z The arrangement of the main roof on the quadrangle side is unique: there is on each side of the central gable a row of hipped roofs. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Large clouds were continually driven by the storm before the moon, which, at this instant, shone on the house gable. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Her room looked from a gable of the castle out into the park. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z The first storey of the towers flanking the rose-window is broken by lofty twin bays crowned with gables. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z The house, a long, low, shingled affair, with many timbered gables, was partly overgrown with ivy. The Brute 2011-06-30T02:00:30.283Z Clapboard shells, with their gables to the street, embellished with square battlements to the ridge, are emblazoned with "City Drug Store," "City Saloon," "City Hard Ware Store," &c. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z When I last saw it, the sunshine had glowed upon the gables and mullions of a goodly mansion; the clear starlight now only showed a moss-grown ruin. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z He also fancied he discerned other buildings, with the high roofs, the gables, and the other architectural peculiarities of the structures of Elizabeth's time. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z The second storey comprises a series of niches, surmounted by sharply pointed gables and adorned with gigantic statues, known as the Kings' Gallery. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z Four shattered walls, two gaunt gables, and a few scorched rafters were all that remained of the house. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z The famous blunt conductors presented no point to catch the bolt, which, dashing at the stately edifice, tore away all its gable end, marring the best apartments, and killing several of the king's servants. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z In the centre stood, skeleton-like, the inevitable unfinished church, its narrow gables uplifted like clamorous hands to heaven in an apparently vain appeal for funds. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The trouble now was, Andy plainly saw, that one set of wings had caught across a tin ornament at the front gable of the barn. Airship Andy or The Luck of a Brave Boy 2011-06-13T02:00:31.130Z A low wooden covering, somewhat like the roof of a house, is reared above it, the gables resting on the ground. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z As Ralph reached the lodge gates he walked a little more slowly, then paused for a moment and looked at the lodge with its quaint gables, its thatched roof and overhanging eaves. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z The air was warm, but fresh and pure as if the sea-breeze had touched it; and the gables and carvings of the old houses were glowing with sunlight. A Canterbury Pilgrimage 2011-06-13T02:00:24.520Z A square stone tower, three stories high, loomed up behind the pointed gables and balconied front, giving a castellated air to the whole building. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z The first appearance of the celebrated remains of the abbey church did not equal my expectations, as they are half-concealed by mean buildings, and the triangular shape of the gable ends has a formal appearance. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z You must go first," he said, quietly, "I will hold the rope over the gable. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z From the gables above her head came the chirp of crickets, mingled with the occasional night murmurs of nesting birds. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z The gables roofs were steep and full of crooks and angles, and covered with rough slate if there was a source for such nearby. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z As we swung around a rocky corner, the whole panorama lay before us—the gables and steeples of the town of Boppard with, as a background, the broad, undisturbed silver Rhine. Average Americans 2011-06-02T02:00:20.387Z Two additions, varying in length and height, provided as many sharp gables, and gave it the inconsequent charm of the unexpected. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Gabriel secured the rope to an iron girder of the skylight, and crawling on the roof dropped it cautiously over the gable. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Outside, the Casino looked like a rambling, old Dutch mansion, with peaked gables and overhanging eaves. The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z Somewhere in the fairyland of Dorothea's imagination rises a visionary city, with towers and gables straggling against the sky. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Under this gable was a small staircase with seats at the foot of it on either side. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z It powdered the massive drooping hemlock boughs, the spraying underbrush, the stiff-branched spruce and cedars that crowded the tall pines, overstretching the steep gable above my windows. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z They have long since gone, but the houses which they built—picturesque old houses presenting two gables to the street—remained after them. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Immediately below the gable were two carved medallions representing the sun and the moon. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z My heroine comes perforce, and looks at the old gables and elm-trees, and stands under the rustic porch. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Did you ever watch a flock of birds sitting for a moment on the mossy gable of a sloping roof? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z I concluded it must be in the gable end of some addition to the main building. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z His naturally handsome face gradually took on a sort of good humored ugliness, and his heavy shoulders slanted over like the uneven gables of his house. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z The southern building of the hall had a magnificent fa�ade, flanked on the east by the gable of the Nieuwerk and surmounted by a large belfry in the centre. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z The old town at Kingston, with its many corners and gables, has something of the look of a foreign city heaped upon the river-side. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z The houses of the higher class were generally constructed of wood, excepting the gable end, which was of small black and yellow Dutch bricks, and always faced the street. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Indeed, from one end, it looked almost ready for the roof, the west gable rising salient through the trees, with the original window intact underneath. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The shapes are various, and the heavy red-tiled roofs and many gables have a charming effect as they stand in rows on either side of the street. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z The south gable, struck on November 21, 1914, collapsed, while on the following day the Cloth Hall burst into flames. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z It was crowded with dancing boats; many people were standing along the shore; the gables of the 'Red Lion' had been all aglow for a few minutes past. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z The spacious roof, embattled, but unbroken by gable or tower, was supported in front by eight massive columns that were intended to be Ionic. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z The cloud dispersed, and wall and window were gone from sill to gable; what remained was nowhere higher than a man could reach. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z We had a queer little cottage on the place, that had a lot of gables and turrets. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z The lower storey was of stone, while the gables and the upper part of the fa�ade were brick. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z The place looked transformed, gables and corners standing out in sudden lights. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z So saying, the pair stole to the rear of the house, and crept round by the gable, until Badger peered round the corner at the fellow on duty outside. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Abby Williams looked out from the gable window of her little chamber, and saw the action. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z At the same instant the black-and-white flag was hoisted on the topmost gable of the Roemer. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z |
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