英语词汇“gable end”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

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

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 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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

One of the gable ends is closed with split boards; the other with poles. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z

Oh murther, but the gable end's all knocked off and fax the chimney went along with it. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z

They were still built chiefly of wood, but with a gable end of brick facing the street. Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York 2011-01-17T03:00:47.770Z

Redolent of red brick picked out with white, full of large bay windows, beetling balconies, twisted chimneys, gable ends, and gate-houses. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z

Winds caused severe damage to the roof over the gable end of the building at about midnight. High winds blow off roof of flat 2010-03-19T06:45:00Z

Bar-tracery appears just before the middle of the 13th century, and the great tracery window filling the whole width of a bay, or the entire gable end, soon becomes a most characteristic feature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil"

When Mr. Harris returned I had the roof on, the chinking all in and the gable end boarded up with shakes and all ready to begin calking and mudding. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.

The effort to retain the original simplicity of line is also evident in the porch roof, which follows closely the wide angle of the gable ends of the house. Remodeled Farmhouses

But here it might possibly come from a lime heap, which had been shovelled up at the gable end of the house. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers

The window of the travellers' chamber looked out from the gable end of the dwelling, and she was now immediately before it. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency

The walls are in red brick, the decorative portions, consisting of superimposed pilasters with mullioned and transomed windows, cornices and gable end, all being in stone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil"

By the time Kate reaches the cabin, the open door is all flames; but, having the ice ax, she runs to the gable end, and hacks in through the window. A Man in the Open

The grandmother was carrying the chopped wood into the shed at the gable end of the house and was there piling it up. On the Heights A Novel

The roof is a simple medium-pitched roof with plain gable ends. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia

Once arrived in the upper gable rooms, he considered, how he could make an easy passage from Erastus' window to the opposite gable end? Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle

And in return for such poor hospitality as we can offer you, you shall regulate the clock, which has lately developed certain eccentricities, and nail up the creeper on the gable end. Windyridge

In strolling about the town one comes now and then upon very quaint old sections, where low red-tiled roofs and houses, with gable ends towards the street, break the monotony. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia

Here was the gable end of a turkey—there, the side wall of a sirloin; on one side, the broken roof of a pasty; on the other, the bare joists of a rib of beef. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands

The bathroom has a dormer window to the front of the house, and each of the bedrooms has a dormer window to the front and a window in the gable end wall. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia

The beauty of the place is greatly lessened by the many old Dutch buildings, with their gable ends fronting the streets. Notes on a Tour Through the Western part of The State of New York

The gable end of the north transept, which must be very near to the north porch in date, is a very similar example of the early work. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

Some faced the sea, and some the land, and the gable ends projected on every side, and at every conceivable angle. Jan Vedder's Wife

Nothing could be more ineffective and out of place than to crown this portion of the Gothic building with a Greek gable end. Cathedrals of Spain

The gable end windows are set in plaster arches, flanked in each case by a 4-foot-high candle shelf. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia

About three o'clock, when I was completely tired and done up, I took my station under the gable end of a brick building, and began to examine the extent of my wounds. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment

It was a tiny town then; picturesque, too, for the houses were low, irregular, with sloping roofs and gable ends to the street. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations

The chimneys stand out from each gable end, and in the brickwork of each of their sides is a plain recessed panel; the chimney-heads being noticeable for the absence of the usual projecting courses. The Annals of Willenhall

It faced south, with one gable end buried to the lower windows in the eastward rising hill, and the other exposed to the foundations toward the street. The Shunned House

The long rows of gable ends, the abbey archways, the old guild rooms, the knightly chambers, no magic can restore to us in perfect combination. Old and New London Volume I

No. 2 chimney bars, to cope gable ends with old stone. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land

The gable ends were closed with pieces of shelter-tent, boards, or some substitute. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House

Three dormer windows pierce the roof, front and back, and four great chimneys rise from the gable ends. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria

Bruges is a town affording five or six volumes of sketches; towers, roofs, gable ends, bridges—all in succession called for exclusive admiration. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)

The gridiron so often threatened never actually went up, but it was to be seen a few years ago nailed on the gable end of a candle manufacturer's at Kensington. Old and New London Volume I

In the village there is an old hostel, partly of the Tudor style, with pointed gable ends, projecting upper storey, and constructed externally of brick and woodwork. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time

This was a small house, with its gable end to the road, and a lean-to at the back, over which the long roof sloped down picturesquely. Diana

A hole in the gable end permitted the escape of the smoke from the fire built on the ground floor. Japan

A telegraph pole stood beside the platform some sixty or seventy feet from the depot, the wires slanting down from it into the building's gable end. The Duke Of Chimney Butte

The gable end of the two-story portion of the building was so close to him that he instantly reined up to seek hiding from its upper and lower windows. Nan of Music Mountain

At the sides there are broad pilasters below, with the usual lanky Doric pilasters above reaching to the main cornice, above which there now rises only an unfinished gable end. Portuguese Architecture

The building is in the form of a Greek cross with four projecting gable ends and an octagonal cupola of graceful design and proportions at the center of the roof. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia

The height of the building at the gable ends is 32 feet; and the height of the eaves from the ground is 21 feet. The Fairfax County Courthouse

The cottage had its gable end to the road, while its broadside was turned towards the southern sunshine, the well-kept vegetable-garden and the pretty flower-beds in front of the windows. The Golden House

The gable ends of the cabin should be built up of logs with the rafters of the roof running between the logs as they are in Figs. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

Higher up there is a round window—heavily moulded—and the whole gable ends in a queer little round pediment set between two armillary spheres. Portuguese Architecture

Master and Mistress lived in a big white house, two stories high, tall brick chimneys at de gable ends, and wide front and back piazzas de full length of de dwelling. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4

This feature is a round "fan window" framed by a circle of bricks in the center of the gable end of the building's front wall. The Fairfax County Courthouse

I sat crouched beside the gable end and waited fearfully for any sound of his returning. Border Ghost Stories

If you are using milled lumber for the roof, erect the rafters at the gable end first, with the ridge board as shown in Fig. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

The gable end of one of these houses faced the street, and with its small, narrow windows, presented a very mean appearance. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

In the village is an old hostel, partly of the Tudor style, with pointed gable ends, projecting upper story, and constructed, externally, of brick and woodwork. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter

It had a balcony, and the gable end was open, and full of big yellow pumpkins and clusters of grapes hung up to dry, and some goats were feeding round. Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

The joists were thrown on top of them and gable ends of the same kind of boards that made the room. A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A.

Its streets were marked by gable ends and cobble stones. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

Two-thirds of the roof of his barn was carried off, and the eastern gable end fell with a crash, as the wind struck it. A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa.

He did not heed the admonition, and on April 25th a mob assembled, and hung Jackson to the gable end of Wallace's cabin. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier

The western gable end, which can be seen from Boley Hill, is also interesting and worthy of attention. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

Across the gable end of it was the legend, "Philippa's Farm," emblazoned in huge black letters two feet long. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922

Still, still the streets, between their carcanets p. 18Of linking gold, are avenues of sleep: But see how gable ends and parapets In gradual beauty and significance Emerge! The Song of the Sword and Other Verses

The east gable end of her barn, and also part of one side, though built of stone, fell to the ground when the cloud struck it. A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa.

It had on the front gable end a large wooden cross, which projected above the peak of the roof some six or eight feet. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier

This, of course, was to be in one of the gable ends; and we chose that looking northward—for we had built our cabin fronting the east. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness

And so, on they went, glancing upward at the dim light just showing through the window-blinds in the gable end of Doyle's quarters, and halting at the foot of the stairs. Waring's Peril

There were large gardens at the sides of the houses, many of them standing with the gable end to the street, and built mostly of wood. A Little Girl in Old Boston

There were two small windows in the gable ends, but in front the eaves overhung the doorway and the windows and were broken and moss-grown. A Little Girl in Old New York

The blaze was first observed at the top of one of the gable ends, which satisfied Ali-Ninpha as well as myself that it was the work of a malicious incendiary. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

As our north wall is already in place, we have only four surfaces to consider, as the accompanying diagram shows—namely, south wall, gable ends, roof and openings. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse

On the middle of the south or gable end, was a chimney eighteen feet high, in excellent preservation, built of stone, with an open fire place. The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot

More than a dozen MacDonalds came running round the gable end, lit by the upper windows, and we dispersed like chaff to the wind before M'Iver's speech concluded. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

But look at that old Dutch roof with the wide eaves, and the recessed doorway, and the trellises on either side, and that big clump of purple lilacs nestling against the gable end. The House of Torchy

At last they advanced to the cottage, and Edward, still keeping within the trees, shifted his position so that he should be opposite the gable end of the cottage. The Children of the New Forest

For the gable ends, a board and sheathing wall to the same height, and for the balance, sash-bars and glass. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse

His home is a two-room frame house, with rock chimneys of rough masonry at each gable end. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2

I almost ran against the gable end of a house the greater part of which was in ruins. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific

Outside, the fitful early April wind howled dismally, swaying the leafless branches of the old elm, and causing them to rub complainingly against the gable end of the farmhouse. Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear

By making a circuit to the left, the ladders were brought to a gable end of the house where there were no windows. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas

Some twenty minutes of this work brought me right up to the gable end of the building, from which position I again reconnoitred José. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron

We lived in a two-room log house daubed wid mud and it had a wood and mud chimney to de gable end of one room. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2

The opening for the dial face of the clock should be at one of the gable ends. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations

The berg had much the appearance of the gable end of a large house, and at some little distance there was another, of tower-like aspect, and much resembling a light-house. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland

Adjoining the granary, and leading to it by a door, is the carriage-house, 20�20 feet, at the gable end of which are large doors for entrance. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings

"I'll bet there is," he added, "a runaway swarm that's gone in at the gable end outside, where the clapboards are off." A Busy Year at the Old Squire's

At the basilica at Bethlehem the gable end was appropriately covered with a mosaic of the Nativity, also a work of the age of Justinian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

A long, low farmhouse, with gable ends and ample porch, an antique building that in old days might have been some manorial residence, attracted his attention. Henrietta Temple A Love Story

The gable ends faced the bay and all across the triangular space above the eves was painted the startling conventionalized head of a wolf. Where the Sun Swings North

No. 4 pointed to the dark gable end barely forty yards away. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier

The door was closed, and Winn was startled to note how very familiar that gable end of the building looked. Raftmates A Story of the Great River

Between its westward gable end and the porch of the hospital lay some fifty yards of open space, and through this gap now gleamed a spangled section of the western heavens. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier

Turning off from the river and entering upon a piece of level ground, they came to the post-office, an old log house with gable end toward the road. The Starbucks

In the gable end of this house, which faced upon the deck, there was a window and a door. The House of Martha

He was under a shed, with a board fence between him and the east-side sentinels, and the gable end of Libby loomed grimly against the blue sky. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War

In fact, the only feature that seemed at all familiar, as he studied it, was the forward gable end of the "shanty." Raftmates A Story of the Great River

Before her, at a little distance, rose the great gable end of the barn, and a long row of outhouses stretched away from it towards the left. The Wide, Wide World

A single window, for symmetry, and a carved balcony fill in the sharp gable end of such houses, but open into nothing, and the window is not even glazed. Russian Rambles

And we held the candles there where the grave is, near the gable end of the church; and my brother went down in the grave and got the stone out, and we buried him. Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish

His room was in the gable end facing the road. The Chief Legatee

With a strange sense of detachment he looked down upon the green sward between him and his mother's gable end, upon which as a child he had wandered from dawn to dusk. The Black Douglas

There was one window at the gable end: a broken window, with fragments of glass lying about it. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old

Here in the south the rope-and-moss-plugged log house stood flat on the ground, and was thatched with straw, which was secured by a ladder-like arrangement of poles along the gable ends. Russian Rambles

"I think, papa, I can remember it:—" 'And thou, Quaint hostel! 'neath whose mould'ring gable ends In amber draught I slake my noonday thirst…' "Something like that, I think, papa." The Astonishing History of Troy Town

Fortunately the fireplaces of my two cottages were against the outer or gable ends, and not against the partition wall, as is commonly the case. The Quest of the Simple Life

The gable ends should next be built upon the smaller sides of the hut. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

A brother to it pitched into a boarding house close by us, and blew the whole gable end sky high. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege

He stood leaning against the wall and facing the gray stone gable end of the row of old-fashioned quarters that bounded the parade upon the southwest. From the Ranks

Ah, to be sure: 'mould'ring gable ends,' a most accurate description. The Astonishing History of Troy Town

A hundred yards off shore they lifted the dripping paddles in mute adieu to old Donald McPhee, smoking his pipe at the gable end of his cabin. Burned Bridges

Just below it, a pretty rose-mantled cottage: and not far off, the gable end of a gentleman's villa, so prominently seated near the margin of the precipice, as to completely overlook the awful abyss. Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.

It was of dark red brick,—the quality of which Mr. Kirkbright remarked with satisfaction,—with high walls at the gable ends carried above the slope of the roof. The Other Girls

Some of them show as peaks, but appear only to be the gable ends, as it were, of table-topped ridges. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2

It was one of a row of small, old brick residences, with Dutch gable ends toward the street. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

The grey house presented a gable end to the street, and stretched a wing comfortably on either side. The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man

The mansion was built of timber and plaster, with huge projecting stone chimneys, gable ends, and deep casements—a fitting residence in those days for rank and nobility. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1

A planter from the Santee, whilst walking in King-street, Charleston, noticed a small windmill perched on the gable end of a wooden store. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

The lines of the high, overhanging, richly decorated roofs, with pointed gable ends, are not straight, but Page 323delicately curved, like the suspended cloth of a tent. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

"Oh, Malcolm, it's good to be at home!" said the earl, as he gazed fondly at his white castle walls, at the ivy-covered kirk, and the gable end of the Manse. A Noble Life

Abaii says that the greater part are to be found under the gable end of the synagogue. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

Situated in a gable end of the building, near the old chapel, in a garret, there is another "priest's hole" large enough only to admit of a person lying down full length. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.

Overlooking the garden in which we stand as we leave the door is the gable end of a plain rectangular building, now cottages, but formerly the Abbot's stables. Evesham

The gable ends of cottages often exhibit a very primitive windmill for sawing wood within doors. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844

Maybe there were two score houses in the place, wooden like ours, but with strange carvings on the gable ends. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex

Another small patch of the same color and material, lower down, presents a gable end, with windows, reminding us of the popular picture of Melrose Abbey in the moonlight. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

Twenty-eight years before, every window and gable end had been gaily bedecked with many coloured ribbons, banners, and flowers to welcome in the restored monarch. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.

She put her hands in her large side pockets and lounged leisurely past the gable end of a house. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion

If there is a chimney, a gable end, a dove-cote higher than the other elevated portions, the burden must, at any risk, be taken to that culminating point. The Devil's Pool

The gable end of the inn was distinguished by its peculiar form. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

An enormous roof could be seen, with the gable ends vaulted; garret windows, roofed over like visors; chimneys like towers; and entablatures covered with motionless gods and goddesses. The Man Who Laughs

M. Langlois has engraved the gable end of an old house at Louviers, said to have belonged to the Knights Templars. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2

A crack in the gable end let in a sift of snow that had been heaping up a lonely little drift on the bare floor. Darrel of the Blessed Isles

The solid Dutch houses, with their gable ends to the street, stood every one on its own lawn, with a garden behind it. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign

It turns its face toward the village, old and gray and humble as any house there, and looks on the road sideways, through the small shy window of its gable end. The Three Sisters

They generally had gable ends opening on to the street, but were so different in breadth, altitude, and form, that it was easy to see that each enterprising proprietor had been his own architect. John Caldigate

Our brick house, two stories in height, was entirely covered on a broad gable end, the branches more than gaining the top. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886

Its green dome towered high above and fell to the gable end of the little house. Darrel of the Blessed Isles

Every house in Garranard I know, and I see each gable end and each doorway as I sit thinking, and all the faces of my parishioners. The Lake

These have their gable ends to the street; great bow-windows, with diamond panes set in lead, grotesque carvings, and low arched door-ways. Little Britain

A wall, a ruin, a sturdy gable end, would rise up in the road; and, when they were plunging headlong at it, would be the road itself. The Old Curiosity Shop

The birds had deposited numbers of acorns in the gable end. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886

Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road. Dracula

I found my uncle at the gable end, watching the signs of the weather, with a pipe in his fingers. Merry Men

The Thames was frozen over, and tempestuous winds had shaken the ships in the Pool, and the steep gable ends and tall chimney-stacks on London Bridge. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger

She could see the gable end of Five Elms now. Mary Olivier: a Life

One of the ground-floor windows at the gable end of the house was open. Casanova's Homecoming

The houses are all circular with conical huts built of clay, with the exception of the chief Mallam's, which has a gable end to it. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa

Many new houses had been built here as the traffic over the fjelds increased, and gargoyles, homelike and Norwegian, sat on the gable ends, while the sound of a piano came from the living-room. Look Back on Happiness

This was agreed to, and we all assembled in my tent, and arranged the court as follows:—I sat at the gable end of the tent with Imam, Ahmed, and Farhan, with Sumunter facing us. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

She would get past the corner and see the red brick gable end. Mary Olivier: a Life

They passed by the gable end of the house. Casanova's Homecoming

On account of the very high winds the walls are built about four feet thick at the gable ends, and about two feet at the sides. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha

The gable end and partitions are formed in the same way…. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines

When to the west it appears like a long barn arched on the top with a high bluff and next the sea resembling the gable end of a house. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant

The red flag of the sheriff had for some weeks waved from the gable end of a small house on the main street, owned by a Baptist cobbler, one David Joy. The Duke of Stockbridge

Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.

He crossed several paths leading in various directions, but went on, gradually descending till the gable end of a farmhouse became visible through the foliage. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies

The occasional break in these conical formations, when the sun was low down, gave one the impression of a vast collection of human habitations, with gable ends to the highest of the buildings. With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia

I was struck with the immense number of them that were erected with their gable end to the street, and with a small portico supported by two fluted columns. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States

The house was built of wood, and looked as if the three slaves might have overturned it, had they pushed hard against the gable end. Domestic Manners of the Americans

Its walls are of gray stone, covered with ivy, or crusted with golden lichens; its front, long and low, is picturesquely diversified with oriel windows, gable ends, and shadowy angles. The Hallam Succession

In the gable end, facing King Street, were two doors, one for each sex, the men occupying the right and the women the left side of the room. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian

At last they advanced to the cottage, and Edward, still keeping within the trees, shifted his position, so that he should be opposite the gable end of the cottage. The Children of the New Forest

The verandah is covered with honeysuckles and other creepers, and the gable end of the house where the bow-window of the drawing-room projects, is one mass of yellow Banksia roses in full blossom. Station Life in New Zealand

The gable end of the cottage was stained with wet, and the eaves-droppings flapped against the wall. Stories by English Authors: England

The manse garret was a long, low, shadowy place, with one gable end partitioned off. Rainbow Valley

The high road from Bungay to Beccles ran close to the house,—so close that the gable ends of the building were separated from it only by the breadth of the moat. The Way We Live Now

Over the way was Pegloe's City Tavern; farther up the street was the court-house, a square wooden box with a crib that housed a cracked bell, rising from a gable end. The Prodigal Judge

Thus he came to the gable end at which Meg slept. The Lilac Sunbonnet

On the present occasion, he was riding a strong brown beast, called Parsimony, that would climb over anything, and creep down the gable end of a house if he were required to do so. The Kellys and the O'Kellys

It had a balcony, and the gable end was open, and full of big yellow pumpkins and clusters of grapes hung up to dry; and some goats were feeding round. Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

The two boys slept in a garret, in what was called the gable end of the house. David Crockett His Life and Adventures

Look at the farmsteading—all that is seen of it, One little gable end over the edge!' Songs of Action

He took the King's Son outside and showed him a dry narrow water-tank at the gable end of the house. The King of Ireland's Son

It was a longish building with its gable ends turned away from the road, and long traceried windows coming rather low down set in the wall that faced us. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance

Hannah’s account had not been exaggerated in substance: the gable end of the house was open to the garden; the joists, left without support, had dropped, and with them the upper floor. Two on a Tower

Each Haida house ordinarily had a single carved totem pole in the middle of the gable end which faced toward the beach. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America

The English town stands on an island surrounded by the Shannon, and consists of a knot of antique houses with gable ends, crowding thick round a venerable cathedral. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

The gable ends and all the chief posts and beams are sometimes covered with exceedingly tasteful carved work, and this is still more the case in the district of Menangkabo, further west. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1

These have their gable ends to the street, great bow windows with diamond panes set in lead, grotesque carvings, and low arched doorways.* The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon

The seat of government continued unchanged in the family mansion,— a Dutch-built house, with a front, or rather gable end, of yellow brick, tapering to a point, with the customary iron weathercock at the top. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American

The house, built of pebbles and mortar, had but one story surmounted by an enormous sloping roof with gable ends, in which were attics, no doubt empty, considering the dilapidation of their windows. The Village Rector

This access led to the front of the house, which was formed by two gable ends, notched, and having their windows adorned with heavy architectural ornaments. Chronicles of the Canongate

Lucinico is nothing more than a heap of grey stones; except for a bit of the church wall and the gable end of a house one cannot even speak of it as ruins. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war

But see how gable ends and parapets In gradual beauty and significance Emerge! Poems

The floor was sunk about six feet below the surface of the ground, with a low door at the gable end, extremely narrow, and partly sunk. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains

The timbers at the gable ends rose gradually higher, the middle pieces being the broadest. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6

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例句	gable end 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 One of the gable ends is closed with split boards; the other with poles. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z Oh murther, but the gable end's all knocked off and fax the chimney went along with it. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z They were still built chiefly of wood, but with a gable end of brick facing the street. Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York 2011-01-17T03:00:47.770Z Redolent of red brick picked out with white, full of large bay windows, beetling balconies, twisted chimneys, gable ends, and gate-houses. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Winds caused severe damage to the roof over the gable end of the building at about midnight. High winds blow off roof of flat 2010-03-19T06:45:00Z Bar-tracery appears just before the middle of the 13th century, and the great tracery window filling the whole width of a bay, or the entire gable end, soon becomes a most characteristic feature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" When Mr. Harris returned I had the roof on, the chinking all in and the gable end boarded up with shakes and all ready to begin calking and mudding. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. The effort to retain the original simplicity of line is also evident in the porch roof, which follows closely the wide angle of the gable ends of the house. Remodeled Farmhouses But here it might possibly come from a lime heap, which had been shovelled up at the gable end of the house. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers The window of the travellers' chamber looked out from the gable end of the dwelling, and she was now immediately before it. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency The walls are in red brick, the decorative portions, consisting of superimposed pilasters with mullioned and transomed windows, cornices and gable end, all being in stone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" By the time Kate reaches the cabin, the open door is all flames; but, having the ice ax, she runs to the gable end, and hacks in through the window. A Man in the Open The grandmother was carrying the chopped wood into the shed at the gable end of the house and was there piling it up. On the Heights A Novel The roof is a simple medium-pitched roof with plain gable ends. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia Once arrived in the upper gable rooms, he considered, how he could make an easy passage from Erastus' window to the opposite gable end? Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle And in return for such poor hospitality as we can offer you, you shall regulate the clock, which has lately developed certain eccentricities, and nail up the creeper on the gable end. Windyridge In strolling about the town one comes now and then upon very quaint old sections, where low red-tiled roofs and houses, with gable ends towards the street, break the monotony. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Here was the gable end of a turkey—there, the side wall of a sirloin; on one side, the broken roof of a pasty; on the other, the bare joists of a rib of beef. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands The bathroom has a dormer window to the front of the house, and each of the bedrooms has a dormer window to the front and a window in the gable end wall. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia The beauty of the place is greatly lessened by the many old Dutch buildings, with their gable ends fronting the streets. Notes on a Tour Through the Western part of The State of New York The gable end of the north transept, which must be very near to the north porch in date, is a very similar example of the early work. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Some faced the sea, and some the land, and the gable ends projected on every side, and at every conceivable angle. Jan Vedder's Wife Nothing could be more ineffective and out of place than to crown this portion of the Gothic building with a Greek gable end. Cathedrals of Spain The gable end windows are set in plaster arches, flanked in each case by a 4-foot-high candle shelf. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia About three o'clock, when I was completely tired and done up, I took my station under the gable end of a brick building, and began to examine the extent of my wounds. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment It was a tiny town then; picturesque, too, for the houses were low, irregular, with sloping roofs and gable ends to the street. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations The chimneys stand out from each gable end, and in the brickwork of each of their sides is a plain recessed panel; the chimney-heads being noticeable for the absence of the usual projecting courses. The Annals of Willenhall It faced south, with one gable end buried to the lower windows in the eastward rising hill, and the other exposed to the foundations toward the street. The Shunned House The long rows of gable ends, the abbey archways, the old guild rooms, the knightly chambers, no magic can restore to us in perfect combination. Old and New London Volume I No. 2 chimney bars, to cope gable ends with old stone. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land The gable ends were closed with pieces of shelter-tent, boards, or some substitute. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House Three dormer windows pierce the roof, front and back, and four great chimneys rise from the gable ends. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria Bruges is a town affording five or six volumes of sketches; towers, roofs, gable ends, bridges—all in succession called for exclusive admiration. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) The gridiron so often threatened never actually went up, but it was to be seen a few years ago nailed on the gable end of a candle manufacturer's at Kensington. Old and New London Volume I In the village there is an old hostel, partly of the Tudor style, with pointed gable ends, projecting upper storey, and constructed externally of brick and woodwork. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time This was a small house, with its gable end to the road, and a lean-to at the back, over which the long roof sloped down picturesquely. Diana A hole in the gable end permitted the escape of the smoke from the fire built on the ground floor. Japan A telegraph pole stood beside the platform some sixty or seventy feet from the depot, the wires slanting down from it into the building's gable end. The Duke Of Chimney Butte The gable end of the two-story portion of the building was so close to him that he instantly reined up to seek hiding from its upper and lower windows. Nan of Music Mountain At the sides there are broad pilasters below, with the usual lanky Doric pilasters above reaching to the main cornice, above which there now rises only an unfinished gable end. Portuguese Architecture The building is in the form of a Greek cross with four projecting gable ends and an octagonal cupola of graceful design and proportions at the center of the roof. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia The height of the building at the gable ends is 32 feet; and the height of the eaves from the ground is 21 feet. The Fairfax County Courthouse The cottage had its gable end to the road, while its broadside was turned towards the southern sunshine, the well-kept vegetable-garden and the pretty flower-beds in front of the windows. The Golden House The gable ends of the cabin should be built up of logs with the rafters of the roof running between the logs as they are in Figs. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Higher up there is a round window—heavily moulded—and the whole gable ends in a queer little round pediment set between two armillary spheres. Portuguese Architecture Master and Mistress lived in a big white house, two stories high, tall brick chimneys at de gable ends, and wide front and back piazzas de full length of de dwelling. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 This feature is a round "fan window" framed by a circle of bricks in the center of the gable end of the building's front wall. The Fairfax County Courthouse I sat crouched beside the gable end and waited fearfully for any sound of his returning. Border Ghost Stories If you are using milled lumber for the roof, erect the rafters at the gable end first, with the ridge board as shown in Fig. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties The gable end of one of these houses faced the street, and with its small, narrow windows, presented a very mean appearance. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen In the village is an old hostel, partly of the Tudor style, with pointed gable ends, projecting upper story, and constructed, externally, of brick and woodwork. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter It had a balcony, and the gable end was open, and full of big yellow pumpkins and clusters of grapes hung up to dry, and some goats were feeding round. Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe The joists were thrown on top of them and gable ends of the same kind of boards that made the room. A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. Its streets were marked by gable ends and cobble stones. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Two-thirds of the roof of his barn was carried off, and the eastern gable end fell with a crash, as the wind struck it. A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. He did not heed the admonition, and on April 25th a mob assembled, and hung Jackson to the gable end of Wallace's cabin. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier The western gable end, which can be seen from Boley Hill, is also interesting and worthy of attention. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Across the gable end of it was the legend, "Philippa's Farm," emblazoned in huge black letters two feet long. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Still, still the streets, between their carcanets p. 18Of linking gold, are avenues of sleep: But see how gable ends and parapets In gradual beauty and significance Emerge! The Song of the Sword and Other Verses The east gable end of her barn, and also part of one side, though built of stone, fell to the ground when the cloud struck it. A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. It had on the front gable end a large wooden cross, which projected above the peak of the roof some six or eight feet. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier This, of course, was to be in one of the gable ends; and we chose that looking northward—for we had built our cabin fronting the east. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness And so, on they went, glancing upward at the dim light just showing through the window-blinds in the gable end of Doyle's quarters, and halting at the foot of the stairs. Waring's Peril There were large gardens at the sides of the houses, many of them standing with the gable end to the street, and built mostly of wood. A Little Girl in Old Boston There were two small windows in the gable ends, but in front the eaves overhung the doorway and the windows and were broken and moss-grown. A Little Girl in Old New York The blaze was first observed at the top of one of the gable ends, which satisfied Ali-Ninpha as well as myself that it was the work of a malicious incendiary. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver As our north wall is already in place, we have only four surfaces to consider, as the accompanying diagram shows—namely, south wall, gable ends, roof and openings. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse On the middle of the south or gable end, was a chimney eighteen feet high, in excellent preservation, built of stone, with an open fire place. The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot More than a dozen MacDonalds came running round the gable end, lit by the upper windows, and we dispersed like chaff to the wind before M'Iver's speech concluded. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn But look at that old Dutch roof with the wide eaves, and the recessed doorway, and the trellises on either side, and that big clump of purple lilacs nestling against the gable end. The House of Torchy At last they advanced to the cottage, and Edward, still keeping within the trees, shifted his position so that he should be opposite the gable end of the cottage. The Children of the New Forest For the gable ends, a board and sheathing wall to the same height, and for the balance, sash-bars and glass. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse His home is a two-room frame house, with rock chimneys of rough masonry at each gable end. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 I almost ran against the gable end of a house the greater part of which was in ruins. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific Outside, the fitful early April wind howled dismally, swaying the leafless branches of the old elm, and causing them to rub complainingly against the gable end of the farmhouse. Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear By making a circuit to the left, the ladders were brought to a gable end of the house where there were no windows. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas Some twenty minutes of this work brought me right up to the gable end of the building, from which position I again reconnoitred José. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron We lived in a two-room log house daubed wid mud and it had a wood and mud chimney to de gable end of one room. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 The opening for the dial face of the clock should be at one of the gable ends. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations The berg had much the appearance of the gable end of a large house, and at some little distance there was another, of tower-like aspect, and much resembling a light-house. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Adjoining the granary, and leading to it by a door, is the carriage-house, 20�20 feet, at the gable end of which are large doors for entrance. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings "I'll bet there is," he added, "a runaway swarm that's gone in at the gable end outside, where the clapboards are off." A Busy Year at the Old Squire's At the basilica at Bethlehem the gable end was appropriately covered with a mosaic of the Nativity, also a work of the age of Justinian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" A long, low farmhouse, with gable ends and ample porch, an antique building that in old days might have been some manorial residence, attracted his attention. Henrietta Temple A Love Story The gable ends faced the bay and all across the triangular space above the eves was painted the startling conventionalized head of a wolf. Where the Sun Swings North No. 4 pointed to the dark gable end barely forty yards away. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier The door was closed, and Winn was startled to note how very familiar that gable end of the building looked. Raftmates A Story of the Great River Between its westward gable end and the porch of the hospital lay some fifty yards of open space, and through this gap now gleamed a spangled section of the western heavens. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Turning off from the river and entering upon a piece of level ground, they came to the post-office, an old log house with gable end toward the road. The Starbucks In the gable end of this house, which faced upon the deck, there was a window and a door. The House of Martha He was under a shed, with a board fence between him and the east-side sentinels, and the gable end of Libby loomed grimly against the blue sky. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War In fact, the only feature that seemed at all familiar, as he studied it, was the forward gable end of the "shanty." Raftmates A Story of the Great River Before her, at a little distance, rose the great gable end of the barn, and a long row of outhouses stretched away from it towards the left. The Wide, Wide World A single window, for symmetry, and a carved balcony fill in the sharp gable end of such houses, but open into nothing, and the window is not even glazed. Russian Rambles And we held the candles there where the grave is, near the gable end of the church; and my brother went down in the grave and got the stone out, and we buried him. Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish His room was in the gable end facing the road. The Chief Legatee With a strange sense of detachment he looked down upon the green sward between him and his mother's gable end, upon which as a child he had wandered from dawn to dusk. The Black Douglas There was one window at the gable end: a broken window, with fragments of glass lying about it. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old Here in the south the rope-and-moss-plugged log house stood flat on the ground, and was thatched with straw, which was secured by a ladder-like arrangement of poles along the gable ends. Russian Rambles "I think, papa, I can remember it:—" 'And thou, Quaint hostel! 'neath whose mould'ring gable ends In amber draught I slake my noonday thirst…' "Something like that, I think, papa." The Astonishing History of Troy Town Fortunately the fireplaces of my two cottages were against the outer or gable ends, and not against the partition wall, as is commonly the case. The Quest of the Simple Life The gable ends should next be built upon the smaller sides of the hut. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making A brother to it pitched into a boarding house close by us, and blew the whole gable end sky high. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege He stood leaning against the wall and facing the gray stone gable end of the row of old-fashioned quarters that bounded the parade upon the southwest. From the Ranks Ah, to be sure: 'mould'ring gable ends,' a most accurate description. The Astonishing History of Troy Town A hundred yards off shore they lifted the dripping paddles in mute adieu to old Donald McPhee, smoking his pipe at the gable end of his cabin. Burned Bridges Just below it, a pretty rose-mantled cottage: and not far off, the gable end of a gentleman's villa, so prominently seated near the margin of the precipice, as to completely overlook the awful abyss. Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. It was of dark red brick,—the quality of which Mr. Kirkbright remarked with satisfaction,—with high walls at the gable ends carried above the slope of the roof. The Other Girls Some of them show as peaks, but appear only to be the gable ends, as it were, of table-topped ridges. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 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. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France It was one of a row of small, old brick residences, with Dutch gable ends toward the street. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. The grey house presented a gable end to the street, and stretched a wing comfortably on either side. The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man The mansion was built of timber and plaster, with huge projecting stone chimneys, gable ends, and deep casements—a fitting residence in those days for rank and nobility. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 A planter from the Santee, whilst walking in King-street, Charleston, noticed a small windmill perched on the gable end of a wooden store. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The lines of the high, overhanging, richly decorated roofs, with pointed gable ends, are not straight, but Page 323delicately curved, like the suspended cloth of a tent. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months "Oh, Malcolm, it's good to be at home!" said the earl, as he gazed fondly at his white castle walls, at the ivy-covered kirk, and the gable end of the Manse. A Noble Life Abaii says that the greater part are to be found under the gable end of the synagogue. Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Situated in a gable end of the building, near the old chapel, in a garret, there is another "priest's hole" large enough only to admit of a person lying down full length. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. Overlooking the garden in which we stand as we leave the door is the gable end of a plain rectangular building, now cottages, but formerly the Abbot's stables. Evesham The gable ends of cottages often exhibit a very primitive windmill for sawing wood within doors. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Maybe there were two score houses in the place, wooden like ours, but with strange carvings on the gable ends. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex Another small patch of the same color and material, lower down, presents a gable end, with windows, reminding us of the popular picture of Melrose Abbey in the moonlight. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter Twenty-eight years before, every window and gable end had been gaily bedecked with many coloured ribbons, banners, and flowers to welcome in the restored monarch. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. She put her hands in her large side pockets and lounged leisurely past the gable end of a house. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion If there is a chimney, a gable end, a dove-cote higher than the other elevated portions, the burden must, at any risk, be taken to that culminating point. The Devil's Pool The gable end of the inn was distinguished by its peculiar form. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories An enormous roof could be seen, with the gable ends vaulted; garret windows, roofed over like visors; chimneys like towers; and entablatures covered with motionless gods and goddesses. The Man Who Laughs M. Langlois has engraved the gable end of an old house at Louviers, said to have belonged to the Knights Templars. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 A crack in the gable end let in a sift of snow that had been heaping up a lonely little drift on the bare floor. Darrel of the Blessed Isles The solid Dutch houses, with their gable ends to the street, stood every one on its own lawn, with a garden behind it. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign It turns its face toward the village, old and gray and humble as any house there, and looks on the road sideways, through the small shy window of its gable end. The Three Sisters They generally had gable ends opening on to the street, but were so different in breadth, altitude, and form, that it was easy to see that each enterprising proprietor had been his own architect. John Caldigate Our brick house, two stories in height, was entirely covered on a broad gable end, the branches more than gaining the top. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Its green dome towered high above and fell to the gable end of the little house. Darrel of the Blessed Isles Every house in Garranard I know, and I see each gable end and each doorway as I sit thinking, and all the faces of my parishioners. The Lake These have their gable ends to the street; great bow-windows, with diamond panes set in lead, grotesque carvings, and low arched door-ways. Little Britain A wall, a ruin, a sturdy gable end, would rise up in the road; and, when they were plunging headlong at it, would be the road itself. The Old Curiosity Shop The birds had deposited numbers of acorns in the gable end. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road. Dracula I found my uncle at the gable end, watching the signs of the weather, with a pipe in his fingers. Merry Men The Thames was frozen over, and tempestuous winds had shaken the ships in the Pool, and the steep gable ends and tall chimney-stacks on London Bridge. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger She could see the gable end of Five Elms now. Mary Olivier: a Life One of the ground-floor windows at the gable end of the house was open. Casanova's Homecoming The houses are all circular with conical huts built of clay, with the exception of the chief Mallam's, which has a gable end to it. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa Many new houses had been built here as the traffic over the fjelds increased, and gargoyles, homelike and Norwegian, sat on the gable ends, while the sound of a piano came from the living-room. Look Back on Happiness This was agreed to, and we all assembled in my tent, and arranged the court as follows:—I sat at the gable end of the tent with Imam, Ahmed, and Farhan, with Sumunter facing us. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile She would get past the corner and see the red brick gable end. Mary Olivier: a Life They passed by the gable end of the house. Casanova's Homecoming On account of the very high winds the walls are built about four feet thick at the gable ends, and about two feet at the sides. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha The gable end and partitions are formed in the same way…. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines When to the west it appears like a long barn arched on the top with a high bluff and next the sea resembling the gable end of a house. The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant The red flag of the sheriff had for some weeks waved from the gable end of a small house on the main street, owned by a Baptist cobbler, one David Joy. The Duke of Stockbridge Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. He crossed several paths leading in various directions, but went on, gradually descending till the gable end of a farmhouse became visible through the foliage. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The occasional break in these conical formations, when the sun was low down, gave one the impression of a vast collection of human habitations, with gable ends to the highest of the buildings. With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia I was struck with the immense number of them that were erected with their gable end to the street, and with a small portico supported by two fluted columns. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States The house was built of wood, and looked as if the three slaves might have overturned it, had they pushed hard against the gable end. Domestic Manners of the Americans Its walls are of gray stone, covered with ivy, or crusted with golden lichens; its front, long and low, is picturesquely diversified with oriel windows, gable ends, and shadowy angles. The Hallam Succession In the gable end, facing King Street, were two doors, one for each sex, the men occupying the right and the women the left side of the room. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian At last they advanced to the cottage, and Edward, still keeping within the trees, shifted his position, so that he should be opposite the gable end of the cottage. The Children of the New Forest The verandah is covered with honeysuckles and other creepers, and the gable end of the house where the bow-window of the drawing-room projects, is one mass of yellow Banksia roses in full blossom. Station Life in New Zealand The gable end of the cottage was stained with wet, and the eaves-droppings flapped against the wall. Stories by English Authors: England The manse garret was a long, low, shadowy place, with one gable end partitioned off. Rainbow Valley The high road from Bungay to Beccles ran close to the house,—so close that the gable ends of the building were separated from it only by the breadth of the moat. The Way We Live Now Over the way was Pegloe's City Tavern; farther up the street was the court-house, a square wooden box with a crib that housed a cracked bell, rising from a gable end. The Prodigal Judge Thus he came to the gable end at which Meg slept. The Lilac Sunbonnet On the present occasion, he was riding a strong brown beast, called Parsimony, that would climb over anything, and creep down the gable end of a house if he were required to do so. The Kellys and the O'Kellys It had a balcony, and the gable end was open, and full of big yellow pumpkins and clusters of grapes hung up to dry; and some goats were feeding round. Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe The two boys slept in a garret, in what was called the gable end of the house. David Crockett His Life and Adventures Look at the farmsteading—all that is seen of it, One little gable end over the edge!' Songs of Action He took the King's Son outside and showed him a dry narrow water-tank at the gable end of the house. The King of Ireland's Son It was a longish building with its gable ends turned away from the road, and long traceried windows coming rather low down set in the wall that faced us. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance Hannah’s account had not been exaggerated in substance: the gable end of the house was open to the garden; the joists, left without support, had dropped, and with them the upper floor. Two on a Tower Each Haida house ordinarily had a single carved totem pole in the middle of the gable end which faced toward the beach. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America The English town stands on an island surrounded by the Shannon, and consists of a knot of antique houses with gable ends, crowding thick round a venerable cathedral. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The gable ends and all the chief posts and beams are sometimes covered with exceedingly tasteful carved work, and this is still more the case in the district of Menangkabo, further west. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 These have their gable ends to the street, great bow windows with diamond panes set in lead, grotesque carvings, and low arched doorways.* The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon The seat of government continued unchanged in the family mansion,— a Dutch-built house, with a front, or rather gable end, of yellow brick, tapering to a point, with the customary iron weathercock at the top. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American The house, built of pebbles and mortar, had but one story surmounted by an enormous sloping roof with gable ends, in which were attics, no doubt empty, considering the dilapidation of their windows. The Village Rector This access led to the front of the house, which was formed by two gable ends, notched, and having their windows adorned with heavy architectural ornaments. Chronicles of the Canongate Lucinico is nothing more than a heap of grey stones; except for a bit of the church wall and the gable end of a house one cannot even speak of it as ruins. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war But see how gable ends and parapets In gradual beauty and significance Emerge! Poems The floor was sunk about six feet below the surface of the ground, with a low door at the gable end, extremely narrow, and partly sunk. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains The timbers at the gable ends rose gradually higher, the middle pieces being the broadest. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6
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