| 单词 | gabled |
| 例句 | I thought about Curacao, warm and safe; about our gabled house in Scharloo, and about my father. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It only took us five minutes to reach the Plaza—an old- fashioned white stone hotel with a gabled blue roof, sitting at the southeast corner of Central Park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z No Locusts Stand I. She looked back at the looming, gabled, house-shaped Hole in the Universe and imagined living in the silver bowl that Baby Kochamma had installed on the roof. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There are balconies, gabled roofs, a large kitchen, four bathrooms, two sitting rooms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The Big House was still there with its blue gabled roof and its wraparound porch. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z And then a voice called out from atop the gabled wall. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The full moon is rising over the chimneys and gabled rooftops of the little town as I walk up the steps to the Ruffed Grouse Hotel and enter the lobby. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was easily two storeys up from the unmown lawn and had a gabled roof with real shingles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Woodchuck Lodge is small and rustic, with a sharply gabled roof and a porch railing of twisted limbs and branches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She visualized the room behind those gabled windows and suddenly realized that the playroom consumed only half the space the attic should fill. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The Slat wasn’t much, just another house in the worst part of the Barrel, three stories stacked tight on top of each other, crowned with an attic and a gabled roof. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The old house on the hill wore its steep, gabled roof pulled over its ears like a low hat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most of the buildings in Ketterdam, the Exchange had a sharply gabled roof to keep off heavy rain, so the guards patrolled the rooftop via a narrow walkway that overlooked the courtyard. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I expected to be shaken awake at the crack of dawn, but when I finally woke, the sun was streaming through the gabled windows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The building was shaped like an L around a small courtyard: three stories on the long side, the top floor, with its gabled windows, crammed under a steeply raked roof. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There is a lovely moment in the color laboratory where you look up through a gabled window at a cluster of the milky white Cloud lights designed by Mr. Gehry for Vitra. 2010-02-14T19:40:00Z From the train station, I threaded my way past churches with green copper spires and gabled, half-timbered houses in fanciful colors — peach, mustard, sage — toward the newest attraction, the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark. Elsinore in Denmark, Hamlet’s ‘Home,’ Is Having a Renaissance 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The estate’s design masterminds included Frederick Law Olmsted, of Central and Prospect Park fame, and the architect Robert H. Robertson, whose original house and magnificent gabled barns remain. 36 Hours in Burlington, Vermont 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s an anomaly among the quaintly gabled houses with children’s plastic slides and bird feeders cluttering the backyards. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z They tended to crop tightly, rather than aim for sweeping views, and there is deep nostalgia in their glimpses of gabled Colonial buildings in the backgrounds. At New York Botanical Garden, Time to Smell the Impressionists’ Roses 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z To get there, you head to downtown Flushing, Queens, cross a courtyard off Prince Street and pass between the two stone lions under a small Chinese gabled roof, guarding the front door. A New Kind of Sichuan Restaurant for New York 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z This summer, Fort Lee film lovers’ protests staved off demolition of a white gabled house at 2423 First Street that once housed Rambo’s Tavern. Getting a Close-Up of the Silent-Film Era 2013-08-15T21:04:52Z With centuries-old gabled buildings lining a web of canals and cobblestone streets, the vibe is quintessential old-world Europe. Belgium’s beautiful Bruges: Old-world Europe in the present 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The gabled roofs of Petite Alsace, a half-timbered housing structure in the Butte-aux-Cailles, transported us to the east of France. Under quarantine, we rediscovered our Paris neighborhood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z I shouted, and ran to my room, which was turretlike and nookish, with a gabled window and what sounded like a family of squirrels living under the slanted floorboards of the closet. Modern Love: Modern Love: A Family Fairy Tale, Twice Told 2012-03-22T22:09:06Z Crumbling shacks are shown with shingles missing from their gabled roofs. Unlocking the Secrets of Boxwood Miniatures 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Clad in weathered shingles, the gabled volumes look right at home on the quaint Massachusetts island. An Art Collector's Haven in Martha's Vineyard 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z While it was still light, I drove to the nearby Mount Vernon Methodist Church, a small, steepled sanctuary with a gabled roof. In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The present cafe rose in gabled splendor a year later, along with a new motor court, now gone. Journeys: In Kentucky, Fried Chicken History 2012-08-24T18:21:19Z The flat—currently owned by artist James Turrell and his wife Kyung-Lim Turrell—features two bedrooms, two baths, a formal living room, a dining room, an office, and a kitchen with a gabled skylight. James Turrell’s Gramercy Park Apartment Is for Sale 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The Remonstrance is displayed there in an anteroom off the rotunda, which is dominated by a timely and towering backdrop that evokes its provenance: a 40-foot-high facade of a 17th-century gabled Dutch canal house. Document That Inspired Bill of Rights Goes on Display in Manhattan 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, when he moved to New Jersey, he took his 19th-century German furniture to a gabled Victorian house near the Princeton campus. Antiques: Elvis and Toreadors, Aglow on Black Velvet 2011-02-03T22:55:03Z Little Red Riding Hood, according to the architects Mary English and Xavier Vendrell, was swallowed by the wolf at Robert Venturi’s famed 1960s gabled house designed for his mother, Vanna Venturi. 5 Books to Take a Deep Dive Into Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The front of the school is clad in two hardwoods, machiche and garapa, and crowned by three gabled forms set back slightly from the front doors. At Sandy Hook Elementary, a new campus and a new start at site of horror 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z It consists of a dozen or so replicas of the sort of archetypal gabled homes that a child might draw, literally stacked on top of each other. 2010-02-14T19:40:00Z On a one-day visit, explore the Old Town’s cobblestoned lanes, gabled houses, historic churches and main square with a cancan of colorful old buildings and touristy eateries. Europe’s best border-busting day trips 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The company’s stuccoed second building, at 320 Main Street, is now a car repair shop in the shadow of a brick apartment tower and gabled houses where Thanhouser stars lived. Getting a Close-Up of the Silent-Film Era 2013-08-15T21:04:52Z Now it boasts a new building that embraces its lush grounds, framing views with such features as a large fanlight in its porte cochere and an open sunburst within the gabled street façade. Lee F. Mindel Tours the Most Gorgeous Spiritual Buildings of the Hamptons 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z A skeletal dragon sculpture known as Nessie has been cleaned off, Ms. Dewell reported, but a gabled playhouse remains buried amid rosebushes and apple trees: “It’s actually sort of becoming weeds,” she said. An Artist’s Maine Menagerie, as Enduring (and Elusive) as Wildlife 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The storybook ballet is a perfect match for the Ballard house’s storybook architecture — gabled roof, turret and all. Seattle’s Nutcracker house in Ballard returns after a year of uncertainty 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It has a gabled roof and a four-room plan, both of which are characteristic of the period. A Farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Is on the Market 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z A newly restored 1885 canvas shows a nostalgic panorama of what blocks around Broadway and Bowery looked like in the 1820s, with horse-drawn carriages rolling past front porches on gabled houses. Antiques: Anti-Semitic Artifacts, New York History and Greek Coins 2011-12-22T23:04:32Z The building’s design — in collaboration with the local architects KAI, a minority-owned firm — will use materials like heavy timber and draw on the local architecture of gabled rooftops and protruding porches. National Juneteenth Museum Takes Shape in Fort Worth, Texas 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Now a reconstructed World Heritage Site, Bryggen, as the area is called, is the city’s oldest bit, a string of pumpkin-and-tomato-painted wooden, gabled warehouses, occupied almost entirely by knickknack shops. Norway in the offseason: Overcast and underappreciated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z In a nearby subway entrance, Mr. Blum said, a tiled wall contains a mosaic sign for the church and images of gabled church entryways. At This Brooklyn Church, Everything Must Go 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Our room was elegantly done in dark woods with a high gabled ceiling. In Hawaii, Surf, Sun and Snow 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Later in the 1960s, Jacobsen moved on to the triangular gabled roofs and vernacular style for which he’s better known. They restored a famous architect’s first house. What happens when he comes to visit? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z In its rustic gabled buildings, resident woodworkers, weavers, potters and metalsmiths made wares to sell. Antiques: Rhode Island Americana, Mary Tillinghast and Byrdcliffe Art 2012-01-05T22:29:20Z At the red gabled studio building, a skylight pours sunbeams onto about 50 of his sculptures. Antiques: A Museum Isn?t Rebuilt Every Minute 2011-02-17T21:36:21Z Security camera footage from about a block away showed the unusual, gabled roof simply collapsed downward. Church roof collapses in north Mexico, killing at least nine and injuring about 50, officials say 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z They opened corner stores and car dealerships and built sprawling homes with gabled roofs, ornate columns and other architectural touches imported from north of the border. Dream interrupted: As gang violence soars in Mexico, migrants in U.S. rethink plans to go home 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z One local example: A classic gabled 1937 home in Magnolia beat the odds despite being in a slow-to-sell neighborhood and a high price point. Selling a Seattle-area home this spring? Here’s what you need to know 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z One house for sale there is a delightful 1917 example of the form with a low-pitched gabled roof and white wooden columns embracing a small front porch. How to buy a home in Seattle area’s Goldilocks market 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The new library combines load-bearing brick, gabled pitched roofs and brick chimneys, along with a tiered timber interior and a large vaulted lantern skylight. Riba Stirling Prize: Cambridge University library wins top architecture award 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The voices of sunbathers carried from the quay, where moored houseboats bobbed beneath gabled houses and planters popping with pink flowers. Ghent is Belgium’s unsung capital of cool 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The gabled roofs give it a storybook appearance. McLean, Va., house with garden oasis lists for $3.5 million 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z He now shares a joint headstone with his wife, Helena Rommel Wancura, who died 11 years before him, in the graveyard that surrounds the historic building, with its red door, wood shingles and gabled roof. Scandal on a Wealthy Island: A Priest, a Murder and a Mystery 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Rama, whose younger children are now students here, works in a section of the century-old Drexel Hall, a gabled, brick complex that once housed the children’s dormitories. Ex-boarding school for Native children owning up to its past 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Built slightly later than the house, which dates from 1909, it is a prefabricated timber structure with a gabled roof, and looks like a timber-framed building of an earlier era. Historic England highlights windmill, mud walls and sports hall 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z That building was made of brownstone, with a gabled roof and two sets of large bay windows across its facade fronting what’s now called Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The Visionary Community of the Harlem Y.M.C.A. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In this small one-story gabled market, originally a garage then converted into a grocery in the 1920s, I chatted with neighbors, learned about my neighborhood and bought sundries. Bring back corner stores to create a connected, equitable city 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z After years of moving from rental to rental, they bought a seven-bedroom gabled home in the Denver suburbs near golf courses and walking trails. An Immigrant Family Caught Up in a Distinctly American Tragedy 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z The light, airy, steeply gabled pavilions were not nearly as easy to create as they might have appeared. Hugh Newell Jacobsen, award-winning modernist architect, dies at 91 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In the early days, some landowners ordered kits for homes with gabled roofs and wraparound porches from Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs for around $500, then assembled them with help from friends. On Long Island, a Beachfront Haven for Black Families 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Now its gabled roof offered another kind of salvation. ‘Are you ready to go back?’ After covid-19, a poultry worker fears a return to work. 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Most of the buildings in the center of the capital, Paramaribo — a mix of wooden cottages with gabled roofs and Brutalist gray office blocks — date to colonial times. A Philosopher-Banker Who’s Shaking Up a Nation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z This cabin is plumb and level, with a flat porch, flush windows inside window-frames, and a gabled roof. He built a beautiful cabin in one of Seattle’s biggest homeless encampments. Now the city says he has to move. 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Both stories of the gabled, 1,500-square-foot house, for instance, are framed at the end of the curving bower like a portrait in a cameo necklace. In Montauk, a Garden Runs Delightfully Amok 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Box gardens approach the South Arroyo home, which taps into the Craftsman style with a low-pitched gabled roof and wraparound front porch. Charlie Kaufman unloads 109-year-old Craftsman in Pasadena 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z A protest movement first ignited five years ago, in which scores of celebrities boycotted the gabled pink-and-white hotel, eventually withered only to reignited by George Clooney last week ahead of the law’s implementation. Brunei urges tourism while at the same time implementing draconian Sharia Law 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The master bedroom features a gabled ceiling, built-in closet, and storage and a bathroom with a skylight in the shower. Renovated 1931 Sears house in Montgomery County was shipped in a package 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Nestled into the left side of the home’s gabled entrance is its most unusual feature: the four-story observation tower. Annapolis house has sweeping water views in every room 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Historic England said its wide gabled structure and ornamental treatment, made up of fish-scale tiling, decorative moulded brick, and a beautifully incorporated bay window, created a finely detailed and strikingly composed building. Bus shelter among listed buildings 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Just a couple of feet high, it’s little more than a miniature of a suburban home with a conventional gabled roof—“a form that even children draw,” as Herzog notes. Swiss Architecture Firm Herzog & De Meuron Celebrates 40 Years 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Sunnyside is a gabled, rambling home covered in wisteria and ivy, situated along the Hudson. Bill Irwin Goes Hudson Valley Gothic 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Architecturally, Bryant Heights’ design and materials echo, but don’t mimic, the gabled brick homes along 32nd Avenue Northeast. 5 architectural approaches that are shaping the way we live 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Little gabled houses of shingle and clapboard are left abandoned to rot and collapse in the Woods, south of Main Street. How the Trump administration went easy on small-town police abuses 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z With gabled roof lines, front porches and masonry cladding, the single-family houses planned for Summerhouse Landing in Herndon, Va., are designed to look traditional from the outside. Traditional look outside, modern layout inside, lots of options all over at this new home community in Herndon, Va. 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Jones and her sister drove through the working-class subdivision, past rows of clean carbon-copy townhouses whose gabled roofs seemed like arrows pointing incessantly upward. Georgia State, Leading U.S. in Black Graduates, Is Engine of Social Mobility 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The 2½-story home has a large front gabled dormer and a second-story balcony over a full-width porch that features square columns to support the roof. Historical McGillic home found on Mandan tour 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Bruges, a late-medieval superpower, is known today for its picturesque canals and well-preserved, gabled houses, many dating to the 15th century. A Belgian Beer Scion Makes a Home in a Brewery 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Boucher’s gabled house sits on a corner lot across an expanse of grass and trees from Paul’s red-brick colonial. Neighbor intends to plead guilty to assault of Sen. Rand Paul, court documents say 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In Overveen earlier this year, a gabled redbrick house that is a short walk from the train station sold for $3.525 million. Bloemendaal: The Wealthiest Corner of the Netherlands 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The stucco-clad gabled church soon became a focal point for the community; hosting not only worshippers but gatherings of civil rights activists and abolitionists – including the church’s most famous attendee, American Harriet Tubman. Congregation fights to save church where Harriet Tubman worshipped 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s hard not to beam in appreciation of this gleaming, gabled beauty, but there’s even more blended delight inside — once you’ve found the custom hidden handle in the entry’s huge, textured, stainless-steel pivot door. A happy medium in Washington Park 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Their distinctive gabled roofs still peek over the high hedges that line the winding roads. Ian McEwan’s Enchanted Garden 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z There, in 2005, Bloom bought a condo in Meadows at Farmview, a complex of gabled, multistory brick dwellings built in a vaguely Tudor style. A neo-Nazi’s rage-fueled journey to Charlottesville 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Nearly all of them were buried in shrouds and nothing else, and with few exceptions, in plain wooden coffins with gabled lids. Researchers excavate remains from centuries-old cemetery 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z She saved enough money to build a tile-walled house with a gabled roof in her home province, Tarlac, north of the Philippine capital, where she plans to retire. Israel’s Invisible Filipino Work Force 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z By then, the royal palace — wooden pavilions with gabled roofs and richly painted pillars — had been burned to the ground by Japanese bombardment in 1942. Animosity in a Burmese Hub Deepens as Chinese Get Richer 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Video footage showed flames moving toward a large, gabled home along a ridge line. Fire breaks out in Santa Cruz Mountains; homes threatened 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Then, in a magic moment, as he heard the Sabbath anthem echoing from a fine, gabled church, he realized the error of his ways. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z What ties it all together: white, modern facades and black, gabled roofs. Rediscovering the Campus-Style Family Home 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The paraders moved past gabled roofs and columned balconies and porches with gingerbread woodwork that looked like a starburst and an abacus. In a city torn by gun killings, New Orleanians turn to a cultural cornerstone to spread a message of non-violence: a second line parade, brassy but mournful, bringing together people touched by the pervasive murder rate 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z On a tour of Holmes Run Acres, a Fairfax County subdivision of 1950s modern homes listed in the National Register of Historic Places, architect Edith MacArthur points to tall, gabled additions and mock Tudor makeovers. A midcentury love-hate relationship? 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z For 40 hours, Meely, a broadcast journalist by training and artist by choice, painted the porch, clapboard siding and gabled roof of the Victorian cottage Cartwright House on Line Street Northeast. Meet the Decatur painter behind the holiday home tour art 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Such new buildings are rare in central Stockholm, where zoning laws maintain the city’s historic skyline of gabled apartment houses and soaring church steeples, typically forbidding altering building heights and facades. Stockholm’s Vasastan Has a New Luxury Draw 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z It will be linked on both sides to indoor glass walkways leading to no fewer than 12 gabled pavilions that house a large living and dining space, a master-bedroom suite and an office. Rediscovering the Campus-Style Family Home 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z On the spire, the metal part of bell chamber windows within the gabled lanterns is corroding and the spire and its stonework is in poor condition, Historic England said. National Churches Trust names 40 spires at risk - BBC News 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z On the top floor, a terrace set into the gabled roof provides a secluded outdoor space for relaxing and entertaining. In Chelsea Heights, townhomes in the shadow of a historical country estate 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Tlingits sometimes depicted clan images on the gabled fronts of their houses, and indoors on decorative wood screens. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The house is built primarily of Indiana fieldstone and brick, and has a gabled section of stuccoed half-timber. Vacant South Bend mansion built in 1898 used to display art 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Most notable was the work to convert the attic into two bedrooms and a gabled bath. Sarasota house for sale at $1 _ with a big catch 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The new architecture mirrors the shapes of the gabled roof and windows, and its fiber- cement siding is the same color as the house’s stucco exterior. One-car garage conversions can unlock the full potential of a tight space Below, Cambridge looked like a toy city — gabled roofs and steeples, a ribbon of road, windshields winking in the sun. The Suicide Detective 2013-06-26T11:00:16Z At the very top sits the chalet, often with gabled roof and many-tiered chimney. El Alto Journal: A Colorful Bolivian Bastion, Floating Above It All 2013-05-14T00:21:45Z She indicates the tree house, which is painted Victorian and has a gabled roof and a telescope sticking out and what looks like a small solar panel. George Saunders: “The Semplica-Girl Diaries.” 2012-10-08T04:00:00Z Fitzpatrick’s district, centered just outside of Philadelphia in Bucks County, is an idyllic suburban scape dotted with gabled Victorians and Phillies bumper stickers. Nuns in revolt 2012-09-06T18:25:00Z With its huge gabled roof, this would be the blueprint for my own house and studio. Crowd-free places: My perfect London day out 2012-07-27T04:30:16Z Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, And four lives paid for what the seven had won. Poems on Travel 2012-04-23T02:00:31.163Z Soon I found myself at the door of a tall, gabled house, where, without waiting, my guide left me. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z The space has eight windows that face Central Park, and the other windows look out on gabled roofs in the Dakota’s interior courtyard. | The Dakota: An Apartment That Ticks All the Boxes 2012-04-07T02:57:16Z She opened the door, and Jasmine was aware of a long, low, sunny room under a groined ceiling, the gabled windows of which were shaded with lucent green. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z She passed through street after strange street, and came out on a wide quay; another canal; across it showed old, gabled, red-roofed houses. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z The decay of the Bassets dated farther back than the decline of the Audleys, and the gabled house under the shadow of Weaver was little better, if something larger, than a farm-house. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z There, in the deep shadow of a tall, gabled gateway, he stopped quite suddenly, thinking that he had heard a twig snap underfoot. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Hoorn is distinguished by its old-world air and the beauty and interest of its numerous gabled houses of the 16th and 17th centuries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z And on turning the corner that revealed the long gabled house at the Low Wood landing he had a gleam of hope. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z I left it as for nearly two hundred years it has stood, "On its windy site uplifting gabled roof and palisade, And rough walls of unhewn timber with the moonlight overlaid." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z They brought back to the old gabled house at Blore some ideas which were new even to old Hayward--though the "Duke" would never have admitted this. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The boy was able to make out the great gabled tower, situated upon a hillock to the north of the city, which goes by the name of the Five-Storied Pagoda. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z The cottage itself is a low, wide, gabled, picturesquely irregular edifice, which our Pythagorean mystic evolved from a forlorn, box-like farm-house which he found here when he purchased the place. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z At Coventry I loved going through the narrow streets, looking up at the windows which leaned together under their gabled roofs. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z Beautiful as Nevile's Court is, it was originally yet more beautiful, with transomed windows, and gabled dormers instead of the present eighteenth century parapet. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The commonest type of grave is a simple pit covered by a gabled lid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The middle part, set back a few feet behind flowers, had big flat windows; the gabled ends had smaller ones and more of them. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z The house, now occupied by the assistant verger, is a gabled wooden structure of two storeys, built over the stone gateway beneath. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z There are the same many gabled, lofty houses, with oriole windows that open outward. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z The marble canopy, with tall marble columns and gabled towers, over the altar is one of Giotto's most exquisite and graceful designs. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z Both were alike, resembling monumental pagodas, gabled in many places, designed with the quaint originality of this people, and ornamented with all the fullness of their fancy. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The old town is irregularly built, with narrow streets and old-fashioned gabled houses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The gray houses hunched their shoulders, lowered their heads, drew their mansard hats and gabled caps over their noses and stood like rows of patient horses at a cabstand under the gray downpour. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z In appearance it is a typical Dutch town, with numerous narrow canals and quaintly gabled houses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Its older streets contain a number of picturesque gabled houses, with quaint lattices and curious doorways. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z There is the whole tribe; a whole brigade is riding behind the gabled catafalque. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z It has wide and regular streets, flanked by numerous gabled houses, and is surrounded by pleasant promenades on the site of its old ramparts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z It set Lawless thinking of Home as he rode across the veld,—of a gabled grey-walled house set down in a pretty garden that gave upon a lane. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z At several of the trees on the land of the farm hotel at Dalen were fixed little shelters, each having a small entrance and a gabled roof. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z A small window is set high in the peak of the gabled end up centre. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z Through the ancient city gate electric cars are passing, and in the vicinity of the gabled pagoda can be seen the chimney of a factory. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z There are coaching-inns here of vast size, ranging from the solid-looking “George” with “eighteenth century” proclaimed plainly enough on its stolid face, back to the “Ostrich,” rambling, gabled, timber-framed, Elizabethan. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z Quaint gabled and timbered houses preserve the ancient aspect of the city. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Afterward, Merkel was spotted sipping white wine with top aides in the bar of the Hotel Amigo a block from Brussels’ gabled main square. EU Pushes to Solve Debt Woes, Banks as Merkel Damps Expectations 2011-10-23T10:05:01Z The fa�ade is decorated with reliefs in a richly coloured sandstone, and has a gabled gallery that is continued round the exterior as far as the apse. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z In the middle of the wall is the gate, a wooden structure, with gabled towers and aggressively golden dragons painted on it, and little bells hanging down from the corners. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z “A curious Gothic building, many gabled, By flowering creepers hidden and entangled.” The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Where were its crooked, winding streets, its plain uncompromising meeting-houses, darkened with time, its curious gabled houses, stooping with age? Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z Outside were the dignified gray walls and gabled windows of an old seashore house. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z Great plane-trees almost hide from view its beautiful fa�ade, which, like that of the Cathedral, is gabled and arranged in galleries. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Behind huge walls the tops of some shadowy trees are visible now and again, the gabled roofs of yamens and a few flagstaffs. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z I was just asking Mr Errol when you arrived to whom that beautiful garden belonged, with the old gabled house standing back from the road, and he replied, ‘Here’s the owner.’ Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z Many of the German Romanesque towers are gabled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Yet the girl would not now dine alone, but stood by the gabled window which looked down on the road, watching, watching, and thinking, till it almost seemed that another morning had passed. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z On the south side of the Lady Chapel are the curious chapels—known as the mortuary chapels—with their gabled fronts lying in the three spaces between the buttresses. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z It is a pretty little gabled house, built of gray stone, and stands upon a small rocky eminence—whence its name "the Knoll." Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z The cottage is thatched and oddly gabled—built before “improvements” came into fashion—yet cosy; with walls three feet thick, which keep out the cold of winter and the heat of summer. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Between its two towers, this gabled fa�ade, the recesses and blind arcading of which form almost its sole decoration, is in strong contrast with the principal fa�ade of the Cathedral. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z It was really three brick houses joined together in a row to form a block, like the medieval gabled houses in London. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z It was a low, gabled structure of no great size, with old-fashioned lattice windows, separated from the park, where were deer, by a charming terraced garden. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z It hath no heavy gabled roof, no door with lock and key; No window-bars shut out the stars, The aisles are wide and free;— Here through the night each altar-light Is but a moon-beam, silver-white. The Ballad of the Quest 2011-07-06T02:00:44.593Z The venerable trees, the moat filled with nettles and rubbish, the broken fences, green stagnant waters, the gabled, turreted, many-windowed, mouldering mansion, a perfect medley of chaotic architecture. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Flat-roofed houses are unknown in this vicinity; all roofs are gabled at a sharp angle to shed the snow. The Mentor: The Weather Serial Number 110; 1 July, 1916 2011-06-09T02:00:19.213Z The stable is a gabled building with slender lancet windows, with open doors swinging on the latch. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z We have seen so many pictures of these odd gabled and tiled roofs overhanging the windows, that at first one has the impression of awakening from a dream to its reality. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z The shrubbery wound up to a lawn stretched before the windows of the house: a large, old-fashioned stone-built house, with gabled roofs, and a flight of steps leading to the entrance-hall. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z But he was able to build only the gabled, dormered group standing at the northwest corner of 92nd and West End. | Clarence True: Row House Wrangler, Chuck Wagon Consultant 2011-05-06T14:19:35Z They pushed forward briskly, and presently, huddled in the valley below them, caught sight of the gabled roofs of the village. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z Then they escaped from the crowd and turned down by the quiet lane where Church House was standing gabled against the great Orion. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z He soon noticed that the dwellings were built of six upright poles, three on a side, and had gabled roofs of palmetto thatch. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z He gave his name as Tom Hoey of the Sheepfold, the gabled roof of which could be plainly seen a short distance south and nearer the park wall. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z By great good hap I negotiated the pass in safety, and came to a small, square ledge that was faced with an attic door, covered with a tiny gabled roof. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z The earlier examples were commonly rectangular, but a shaped or gabled top eventually became common. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Flowers are growing among fountains and foliage, and children are at play; there is a sight of high gabled roofs overhead enclosing it, so do the long lines of the ancient arcades. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z It is a small, gabled, weather-beaten house, near a group of magnificent oaks on a hill-top. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z All that is left of the thirteenth century castle is the gabled keep, looming high on a rock just back of the town, and some fragments of the battlemented curtains. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Stately columns or the kind of gabled roof that seems sprung from an Edith Wharton novel? Coney Island Journal: In Coney Island, Landmark Status for Fire-Eaters? Showplace 2011-03-05T03:00:23Z The other sides of the square are enclosed by quaint gabled houses, which formerly belonged to the Merchant Guilds. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z The two were divided by a wall, in which was set as gateway the gabled Norman arch which is now the entrance to the Bowling Green in front of us. Canterbury 2011-02-17T03:00:20.527Z Modern improvement has cleared away much that was picturesque, but around the cathedral are still left a few gabled houses, which serve to preserve something of the medi�val setting which once held it. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The best view of it is from the bridge crossing the river, and surprisingly beautiful it is, with its gabled towers and square bartizan turrets and mullioned windows. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The waterways which traverse and surround it and the character of its numerous gabled medieval houses give it the appearance of an old Dutch, rather than of a German, town. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z And there are some gabled houses where the long slope of the roof has sagged a little, just enough to make a place for moss and shadows, but not enough to look fallen in. Pilgrim Trails A Plymouth-to-Provincetown Sketchbook 2011-02-02T03:00:24.703Z The destruction of “Old Paris”—the gabled, half-timbered, mediæval city—is not only an artistic regret, but a personal one to all who know intimately the city’s history and romance. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z His shrine of St. Ursula, an oblong tabernacle of carved oak with gabled ends, for which Memling did a series of miniatures, is one of the most beautiful accomplishments of this kind in the world. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z It was a beautiful old house, with a gabled roof and golden-red bricks like a winter sunset; and the hall and passages of it were dark and velvety, and the rooms upstairs smelt of lavender. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z Notched like a saw, the gabled front presents a row of shutters, which, like grey eyelids, secure us from indiscreet looks. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z It turned its gabled front to the street, with a door below and a window above. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z Built of small bricks, it had latticed windows, and a gabled front. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z And the lovely daughter shut herself up in her little gabled chamber, put her little scarlet flower in water, opened her window, and looked forth into the blue distance. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z The tiny "bastides" — fortified villages huddled around their gabled central squares — show it was good to be close and protected. Car trip is a Tour de France Armstrong cannot win 2010-06-02T15:30:00Z The island is a former French colony, and the heart of Antananarivo has the feel of a European town rising up a hillside, its brightly colored buildings ornamented with gabled windows. Rumors of Conspiracies Rattle Madagascar 2010-05-14T05:22:00Z Mary Kay Gallagher got into real estate as a kind of civic duty, to help find responsible guardians for the shingled, gabled and columned behemoths in her own backyard. Gallagher is the Real Estate Queen of Ditmas Park 2010-04-10T00:27:00Z They were mere aquarelles, representing in a versatile manner and with thoroughly artistic conception old buildings, Gothic turrets, and streets of gabled houses. A Divided Heart and Other Stories And then he saw it, near a wood, An old house, gabled brown, Like some old woman, in a hood, Looking toward the town. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy The gabled, crow-stepped mansion of the Moat had nothing very ancient about it—that is, to the common view. Deep Moat Grange When she came up again, an hour had passed, and the moon appeared over the gabled roof and shone brightly into her proud face. A Sister's Love A Novel The back part of it is closed and forms a small vestibule, with old-time oval windows extending on each side beyond the gabled roof-line. Remodeled Farmhouses The old red-brick, heavily chimneyed, and gabled buildings, with their large windows divided by bold mullions and transoms, and their simple noble outlines, are familiar to us all, and so are their characteristic features. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Almost as mysterious and full of meaning seemed the outlines of the gabled houses on the hill slopes crowned by that splendid semi-religious fortress, the tall tower cleaving the sky. Glories of Spain On the farther side stood a cottage with diamonded lattices and a gabled roof and a garden full of deep crimson phlox glowing against a background of gnarled and somber hawthorns. Sinister Street, vol. 2 "Let's go softly and peek in," she said, returning into her mischievous self as the great gabled house afire with lights loomed before them. Making Money A somewhat later development was the hipped roof, in which the gabled ends were flattened, making four flat sides sloping from the ridge-pole. Remodeled Farmhouses The romantic old town, with its winding streets and lanes, flanked by massive gabled houses, dates from the medieval days of Hanseatic prosperity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Many of the stall-holders wore costumes which harmonised admirably with the arcades and gabled roofs. Glories of Spain Guy had digs in an old house whose gabled front leaned outward, whose oriel windows were supported by oaken beams worm-eaten and grotesquely carved. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Mrs. Skinner and her son Joe lived in a detached red brick house, built long before villas with bay windows and gabled roofs, and little dormer windows in them, were thought of. Little Miss Joy This has a gabled roof, supported in front on two simple columns. Remodeled Farmhouses The roof of the gallery is flat and occasionally gabled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Here and there we caught a vision of promising arcades, and apparently ancient outlines of houses and gabled roofs, but everything was in tenebrous gloom. Glories of Spain Prior to that time, Mrs. Tobey had resided part of the time in Washington and part of the time in Concord, New Hampshire, where she owned a spacious, gabled New England mansion built about 1750. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia They walked in single file, for the street was very narrow, the gabled roofs almost meeting overhead at their apex, their firm footsteps made no sound on the thick carpet of snow. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Two three-fourths round and two free-standing, fluted, Doric columns are used, supporting a cornice and a gabled roof, the details of which repeat those in the cornice of the house. Remodeled Farmhouses The walk was not a long one, for in about ten minutes they came in sight of a pretty log house, gabled and fancifully roofed, and of quite pretentious dimensions. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance We had expected a great deal of Zaragoza; hoped to find a city of great antiquity, with nothing but gabled houses and ancient outlines worthy the fair capital of the fair kingdom of Aragon. Glories of Spain The gabled front, window mullions and porch remain of the old work, and also the hall and front rooms. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield You all know the house with its flat fa�ade of red brick, its small windows and tall, very tall gabled roof that ends in a point high up above the front door. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Dordrecht presents a picturesque appearance with its busy quays and numerous canals and windmills, its quaint streets and curiously gabled houses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" It stands in a well-kept churchyard, ornamented by some noble yew trees, and around two sides of it runs a road, skirted with low antient buildings, picturesquely gabled and chimnied, and dating from Tudor times. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Houses with gabled ends, tiled roofs and windows ornamented with magnificent wrought ironwork; the true tone of antiquity over all—as yet unspoilt. Glories of Spain The roof was flat or gabled, and, like the wall spaces, covered with paintings or mosaics. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. But he allowed Stoutenburg to lead him down the street to the narrow gabled house where he lodged. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel They remember her gabled roofs, narrow pavements, winding alleys humid and shining from recent rain; her mullioned windows looking out on high-walled gardens where the over-hanging trees drip and drip in chastened melancholy. The New Warden The quays of the Nyhavn are lined with old gabled houses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" As her eye caught the gleam of gabled housetops through the trees Nancy suddenly pictured how, at that very moment, every home in Freedom was echoing with the story of the party. Happy House It had a gabled roof, an arcaded loggia and a cupola. A History of the Town of Fairfax A dark-coloured frame surrounds the gabled square of the picture, delicately traced with an ornament interrupted at intervals by thirty medallions on gold ground, each of which contains the half-figure of a saint. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Its houses had walls of white stucco and gabled roofs of red tile. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" In the twilight, and from my studio window the swallows, like black cinders against the yellow sky, dart and swoop above the forest of chimney-pots and tiled and gabled roofs.- The Real Latin Quarter I was thus in the poorest of spirits, though still pretty resolved, when I came in view of Pilrig, a pleasant gabled house set by the Walk-side among some brave young woods. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) When it occurs earlier, it is on fragments of true gabled architecture, as, for instance, on the porch of the Carmini. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) If so large as to require jointed masonry, the gabled sides will evidently require support, and an arch must be thrown across under them, as in Fig. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) By the addition of a wing to the left of the present doorway, a beautiful Palladian window, and new entrance porch set in a gabled bay, Fowle changed the front façade into the latest mode. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria The thatched roof was gabled, and the four low-ceiled bedrooms had each of them a window in a gable. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit This gradually became elongated, and the towers were sometimes gabled on each side, as is the case with the remarkable Saxon church at Sompting, Sussex. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them It was only a little way into the village; as soon as they came in sight of it June pointed excitedly to a red gabled house just visible through the trees. The Phantom Lover They were low by comparison, gabled with false fronts over each set of rooms and, in the glass of their small-paned windows, the reflection of the fire gleamed capriciously from unexpected shadows. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Bristol is full of old and quaint churches and narrow yet picturesque streets, with lofty gabled timber-houses. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel There are the same platforms diminishing in area as the top is approached, and on the topmost platform is a small cella or temple with a gabled stone roof, which probably originally contained the sarcophagus. Architecture Classic and Early Christian In Grove Road is a Home for Female Orphans, a large gabled building. Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London Each pier, which ends in a square crocketed and gabled pinnacle, has half-way FIG. Portuguese Architecture Along the broad plage are numerous summer villas, with quaint gabled roofs and small pointed towers in the French style—houses occupied in the season mostly by wealthy Parisians. The White Lie Its Lion Inn is a fine specimen of the ancient black-and-white gabled hostelrie which novelists love so well to describe. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The country was in its richest summer garb, even the porch of the old gabled house was covered with pale pink roses. What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps They say that the oldest buildings of Salem—the Gothic, steep-roofed ones—were meant as copies of gabled cottages on the old home side of the water. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America All this is thoroughly Portuguese and clearly derived from what had gone before; but the same cannot be said for the crockets or for the pinnacles with their square and gabled spirelets. Portuguese Architecture The University next appears, like a palace; then a palace indeed, red like the houses; then the gabled town. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden In Devonshire, particularly among the farmers and poorer classes, the ridged coffin is very general, the end being gabled. Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Behind the main street there were gabled houses with ancient wooden balconies and gardens crammed with pinks. Home Life in Germany There were rows of gabled stone houses of great antiquity, still inhabited, stretching away in an array of façades, gables, and most fantastic roofs, all of mellow toned tile, brick and stone. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders Spires and gabled roofs broke the foliage here and there, and on the rising slope beyond towered a veritable forest. Seven Miles to Arden Old drawings show it to have been a large, straggling building with one great court and a number of smaller yards and quadrangles, turreted and gabled and quaint with tall and delicate chimneys. Highways and Byways in Surrey Some claim it was four-cornered, others that it was gabled like nearly all our structures in Europe. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood A little group were feeding pigeons which, at the sight of crumbs, had swarmed iridescent from the tall colombier in the far corner near the gabled barn. The Rough Road The market place was surrounded by purely Flemish gabled houses of grayish stucco and stone, and these were most charmingly here and there reflected in the sluggish water of the rather evil-smelling river Dyle. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders On the other side of the road a cluster of gabled cottages was visible against the faint rose tint of the eastern sky. The Panchronicon A long string of low-roofed houses lines the highway; little white gabled cottages offer tea and refreshment; two old inns share most, I suppose, of the custom of fasting travellers. Highways and Byways in Surrey Eastern people's were not acquainted with gabled buildings. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood They are large, broad gabled, two-story affairs, with comfortable porches, extending all the way across the front, each being divided by an interior partition, so as to accommodate two families. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Strong pillars support its gabled roof, that reaches down to the ground; the entrance is flanked by great stone slabs. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The house was a large red-brick one, modern, gabled, and typically suburban. The Seven Secrets The cluster chimney is a unique feature of its architecture, as is the gabled end. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century N.W., shows slight remains of the original Augustinian priory; but the present beautiful gabled building, picturesquely situated, dates mainly from 1618. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" The former, a substantial old gabled building, standing in a large old-fashioned garden, probably dates back some 300 years. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter The gamal is replaced by a cooking-house, which is open to the women; generally it is nothing but a great gabled roof, reaching to the ground on one side and open on the others. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The nave was originally aisleless, long, narrow and lofty: the entrance porch had an upper story finished with a gabled roof, and a vaulted ground-floor with entrances on three sides. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church The gilded roofs, the gabled fronts of the palace at Greenwich called Placentia, winked in the fresh sunlight. Privy Seal His Last Venture A squat, snug house, the eaves of whose steep gabled roof came down well over its two stories, like the snuffer on a candle. A Village of Vagabonds The hedges were bedecked with their late autumn flowers; the teams and smock-frocked men were going home to the gabled houses, and the warm-lit cottages. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea This, too, was lined with tall gabled houses of stone, and adorned with the arms of Paris and statues of Notre Dame and St. Denis. The Story of Paris The aisle was consequently covered with a lean-to roof, or with a separate gabled roof of its own. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church By seven o’clock this morning it was noised in every thatched cottage and in every gabled hall that the great Dragon had been captured. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale Often only a single wall or a tottering chimney remained silhouetted against the skeleton of a gabled roof; its rafters stripped of tiles, gleaming in the moonlight like the ribs and breastbone of a carcass. A Village of Vagabonds He is made rich by it, and he returns to Boston and buys the gabled house in the cool green lane by the sea. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin A light was shining from its gabled front. The Hero of Garside School To the left, in a group of trees, stood a pretty little gabled house. The Mistress of Shenstone But here he had married, and from Cologne had brought home his bride to the picturesque, red, gabled house by the water's side in his own city. Linda Tressel In earliest days the name was painted in letters bold across the high gabled face, but years of weather had washed the paint off. Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road On the other side there was a bold point with a picturesque clump of pines shading a number of the odd little gabled structures with which the Indians cover the graves of their dead. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] After a great deal of difficulty, and with some injury to her already injured arm, she managed to climb the beech-tree and so reach the gabled roof just under her attic window. Girls of the Forest The Deanery, a stone house with two gabled wings, stands opposite to the north transept. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Its gabled roof seemed diminutive compared to the structures which were taking shape close by and, as they looked, there drifted out the sound of a piano. The Rapids He finds the delicious huddle of the gabled, pigeon-haunted roof of a certain brown old building at Frame, with poppies and gladiolus and hollyhock crowding the beautiful foreground. Picture and Text 1893 Thence they strode down a steep street towards the Dowgate quay, halting at a gabled and timbered tavern within a stone's throw of the water. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea The house was a three-storied stone structure, built fifty years before, steep of roof, gabled, low-ceilinged, old-fashioned and delightful. The Adventures of Bobby Orde Before I ended I had even let her hear of our midnight stroll about the place and our look at the gabled room where we believed her to be sleeping. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Eden was a tiny, cornery, gabled grey house just across the road and down a long, twisted windy lane, skirting the edge of a beech wood. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 The hospital to-day is one of the secular buildings of Exeter most worth visiting, with its gabled houses, dormer windows, and garden plots. Exeter The old-world shops and gabled houses contrast with the modern buildings, which contain the new Examination Schools, or show where some college or other has forced its way into the High. Oxford A little further on, a dark square opening makes a patch of black beneath the gabled windows of No. 190. The Story of Rouen It was one-storied, with thatched roof, gabled wings, and a projecting central porch. Historic Boyhoods The snow on the ground sent up a pale reflection, and I began to see the gabled outline of the houses and the steeple at the head of the street. Coming Home 1916 Mrs. Johnson led the way up two flights of stairs and into a little room with a gabled roof. The Girl Scouts' Good Turn Its houses had steep, gabled roofs, of which some seemed to be tile and others thatch. The Pirates of Ersatz On its left is an undoubted Renaissance pillar, probably taken from its original position in another place, and high above you rises a gabled window with carved sides. The Story of Rouen It was quite dark but the street lamps were lit and the cheer of gas and firelight streamed out from the old gabled house invitingly. Chicken Little Jane Just when the fire at the barn began to subside, and the sparks ceased to fall on the roof, a tiny column of smoke began to curl up from the gabled roof of the porch. Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas The little low butchers' shops, fronted by raucous stalls, the gabled houses, and the flat-faced hotels, are some of the loveliest bits of eighteenth-century domestic architecture remaining in London. Nights in London The steeply gabled roofs of the nearby town showed only the fluttering of tiny birds. The Pirates of Ersatz Timber-framed and gabled houses, steeply pitched red roofs and stunted grey and mossy church spires, certainly make no unpleasing picture. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Frank had been fortunate enough to sell his pretty cottage, but the old-fashioned gabled house with its wistaria vines and terraced lawns, was not so easy to dispose of. Chicken Little Jane So this point settled he trudged on again, till, by twelve o’clock, he saw Wickham in the distance with its gabled red houses and tall factory buildings. Our Frank and other stories He kept a rival boarding-house, not far from Sorel's, in a gabled wooden house two hundred years old, which was anciently the home of an eminent Puritan divine. In Madeira Place 1887 I tried the inns that evening Of a long gabled high-street grey, Of courts and outskirts, travelling An eager but a weary way, In vain. Last Poems The picturesque western front of the castle is gabled and embattled, and a very high archway is built in the centre of the wall. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts The old gabled house was in the dire throes of packing. Chicken Little Jane Part of the tower, that to the west, has a battlement, while the rest has a low gabled roof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire A knock at an oaken wicket; a peering shy brother, and one was on green lawns and the shadows of a gabled monastery. The Wind Bloweth The car went purring through the quiet streets where gabled houses slept under the moon, but having passed the town limits, leaped into a racing pace along the road for Orleans. The Tyranny of Weakness The only trace of them now to be seen is in the spandrels of a small cinquefoil-headed opening on the projecting gabled wing to the south of the central door. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts She had to fight every inch in the teeth of the wind and reached the gabled house thoroughly chilled and spent. Chicken Little Jane The part of the King's House thus occupied, the narrow streets of gabled houses, with tourelles at the corners, and much gilded and carved work, has vanished completely, even to the memory. Westminster The Fascination of London In all directions these red houses were springing up, quaintly gabled, much verandahed, pointed, fantastic, brilliant. The Dictator Wheeling the car into the driveway, he had a shadowy impression of an old and gabled place, inky except for the pallid light of a lamp turned low in an upper window. The Tyranny of Weakness Just under the peak of the roof was a small window gabled, with a broad sill, and casements that opened outwards, overlooking the promenade. The Black Cross Its high façade is divided in three parts and gabled, and it has three rows of half Roman and half Gothic arches supported on columns. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day The town is confined in a valley between bare cliffs, and from the heights all that can be seen is confusion of grey and white houses with gabled roofs covered with grey tiles. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People All round the cathedral are the finest old gabled houses I ever saw, Charley. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Through the mighty gaps in the gabled roofs of the houses of the narrow street on which we enter shines the moon. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Her round, full face, fat neck and robust form was a constant invitation for good cheer, and her matchless wit was a marvel to the guests that nightly congregated through her three-story gabled stone monastery. Shakspere, Personal Recollections The leading features of the design are a gabled façade with sham minarets, and a recessed porch with overhanging balcony. Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London The little house was quite near the railway, a gabled, two-storied cottage with diamond-paned windows, and creepers and roses all over its walls. Mary Gray The moon was struggling through the clouds, and I could dimly discern the outline of the quaint gabled front of the house, with its mullioned windows, and masses of clinging ivy. The Jolliest School of All Rudel and Lisbeth were a little girl and boy who lived many years ago in a beautiful gabled farmhouse on the edge of a forest in Germany. Chatterbox, 1905. Lady Agnes meanwhile settled with her girls in a gabled, latticed house in a mentionable quarter, though it still required a little explaining, of the temperate zone of London. The Tragic Muse A series of fine gabled buttresses gives relief to the exterior of the choir on each side. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See It was all so pretty and peaceful, with its red gabled cottages sending up their blue spirals of smoke into the overhanging boughs of great trees. Mary Gray Owing to the nature of the site the streets are irregular; in the inner part of the city they are generally narrow, and sometimes, with their ancient gabled houses, extremely picturesque. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" A pale wisp of smoke was ascending listlessly in a straight line above the gabled roofs high up into the far still air. A Book of Quaker Saints And Charles Hoar's house is with us to this day, quaintly gabled, and with over-hanging timber-framed stories, such as the Romans built here in the first century. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The wall of the North Aisle between the porch and the transept is divided into six compartments by Early English buttresses with gabled heads. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings The central arch is larger and higher than the others, is gabled and surmounted by a richly jewelled cross. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See If the intruder was still in the house he could be nowhere but in that unfinished half of the gabled top story. Murder at Bridge Myrtle Grove, whilom the residence of the ill-fated Elizabethan soldier, Raleigh, is an unpretentious, ancient gabled dwelling. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Far down a white bridge spans the river: on the shore red-tiled and gabled houses crowd to the very edge; and behind them a church tower stands out clear against the sky. Nature Near London In the south face is a depressed segmental window, much smaller than the corresponding window on the north side, under a gabled parapet. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings The churches and quaint gabled houses were trimmed with evergreens, great preparations were made for the family feasts, and business was generally suspended. Yule-Tide in Many Lands Knees and hands steady again, he investigated the finished portion of the gabled story swiftly. Murder at Bridge As he moved almost on tip-toe through Mary's garden, now all fragrant with golden wall-flowers, lilac, and mayblossom, he paused a moment,—looking up at the picturesque gabled eaves and latticed windows. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Their outlines, their gabled roofs, the deep shadows cast by the pale moonlight, the warmer reflections from the beautiful latticed windows—all charmed us. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 Adjoining the triumphal arch is a Flamboyant ossuary or mortuary chapel, dated 1581, richly gabled, in perfect preservation, and of two storeys. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Then the town is lying in alternate light and shade; the pavements are chequered with gabled outlines, long drawn out or foreshortened according to their position. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 With these rooms going to waste, why—he suddenly asked himself—had Nita Selim coaxed Judge Marshall to have the unfinished half of the gabled attic turned into bedrooms and baths? Murder at Bridge Then, if the flat roof be still found monotonous, it may be interrupted by garret windows, which must not be gabled, but turned with the curve a b, whatever that may be. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character The market-place was broken and diversified in its outlines; one or two of the streets turning out of it looked quite gabled and mediæval. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 In the upper right-hand corner is a gabled cottage with a tree, and under it a moth, flower, and caterpillar. English Embroidered Bookbindings The roofs are, some of them, gabled; others, slanting backwards, give room for picturesque dormer windows. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 Another door in the section behind the staircase leading to the gabled second story next claimed his attention. Murder at Bridge In this valley, one clear morning in August, as the church clock struck five, a lad issued from the arched entrance of one of the pretty gabled houses along the main street. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 This, like many of the Dort houses, was furnished with a terrace, placed between the gabled roofs, which rose sharply on either side. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars In the foreground is a river with a bridge of planks, a gabled cottage, hospitably smoking from its chimneys, a red lily, and a tree. English Embroidered Bookbindings Here and there we came upon gabled outlines, but much that we saw seemed modern and unpicturesque; very tame and commonplace after our late experience in the cathedral. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 But he didn't quite finish even that—left half the gabled top story unfinished, and Nita has been teasing Hugo to finish it up for her. Murder at Bridge Wonderful gabled roofs succeeded each other in a long procession. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 Lancashire Legends," describing this old house, inform us that it was "one of those ancient gabled black and white edifices, now fast disappearing under the march of improvement. Strange Pages from Family Papers In the right-hand upper corner is a turreted and gabled house, the windows of which are marked with little glittering pieces of talc. English Embroidered Bookbindings The edge of a steep gabled roof and a chimney could be just seen through the window, and in between peeped a three-cornered piece of blue sky. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross It would be interesting to know in which of the old gabled houses Joan resided during the two days before she was admitted to enter the castle. Joan of Arc The Square close by was surrounded by gabled houses, and houses not gabled: a mixture of Ancient and Modern. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 Botfield Hall was a large, half-timbered farmhouse, with a gabled roof, part of which was made of thatch and the rest of tiles. Fern's Hollow The night slowly falls, and lights are seen at the windows of the gabled houses. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Two gabled windows, back and front, made with the centre line of the low-sloping ceiling a Greek cross effect. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel But except that it was detached and gabled, it belonged quite to the class of city houses. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 Square roofs and straight lines broke the continuity of the picturesque gabled roofs and latticed windows. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 On the island within the ring was a huge heap of loose bricks—a few months ago this had been a picturesque château with gabled roofs, surrounded by gardens and a wooded park. Combed Out Once more he heard the clatter of cavalry galloping up a winding mountain road to a gabled city whose roofs and turrets glinted ruddily in the westering sun. Diane of the Green Van It was three stories high, constructed of stone, gabled and balconied, with a roof which resembled an assortment of fanciful noses. The Grey Cloak Not far away, on a gently rising ground, lay a long, straggling village, of gabled houses, among high trees. The Child of the Dawn The gabled and ivy-wreathed Elizabethan manor-house which is the summer home of the maidens stands but a few rods from the river's bank. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 The gabled porch was wide and roomy, but had seen its best days, and was rather out of repair. Bressant Were further proof needed it could be afforded by a grave at Molafà, where a Giant's Grave with its façade and gabled slab has been faithfully imitated in the solid rock. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders The French and English coasts lay distinctly visible in the strange starlight, the white cliffs of Dover resembling a long gabled block of marble houses. Israel Potter Yours, you say, is an old gabled, vine-clad, dove-nested country house, a shelter for the people you love—and always kept for your Master's use. Rose of Old Harpeth On either shore they saw the manor houses of the seigneurs, solid stone structures, low, steep of roof and gabled, with clustering outhouses, and often a stone mill near by. The Hunters of the Hills Over the inequalities of the upland slope, clumped with trees, we reached the gabled cottage, with its neglected little farm-yard. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh It was a long, low, rambling, gabled building. The Man in the Twilight It has a pleasing entrance through a gabled brick porch which has over the Tudor-shaped doorway a statue of the founder and mullioned latticed windows. Vanishing England Down the path that leads between Ferns and mosses, shaded green, The gabled house is dimly seen. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 The troop marched along the street, followed by many curious ones, and many heads popped in and out of the gabled windows. The Goose Girl The houses have mostly an upper story, and are built of wood with gabled roofs. Three Months of My Life Lower down, on the same side, stood the great House of Cold Harbour, also gabled. As We Are and As We May Be The Elizabethan and Jacobean builder increased the height of his house, sometimes causing it to have three storeys, besides rooms in attics beneath the gabled roof. Vanishing England I was thus in the poorest of spirits, though still pretty resolved, when I came in view of Pilrig, a pleasant gabled house set by the walkside among some brave young woods. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Yonder, over there, across the gabled roofs of Paris, they were clamoring at the door of him who had given back Paris to the king, and France again to its people. The Mississippi Bubble The Georgian dislike of gabled irregularity is once more exemplified. Evesham The quaint gabled houses are painted a snowy white, and are roofed with brown glazed tiles of curious pattern, also rimmed with white. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama This must be the place," exclaimed Halloran, in a low voice; "large gabled house, arched gate, serpentine walk; yes, there is the figure of a woman in the shadow of the stone post this way. Mischievous Maid Faynie Hard by the castle is a spurious and richly gabled stable in the general style of the château de Chantilly. Shandygaff In that shadowed, gabled room were the noises of many sunk in slumber. Walking-Stick Papers Further down on the right side is a much renovated gabled building of timber, possessing a fine doorway of the fifteenth century with its massive door and wrought-iron hinges intact. Evesham The old Georgian quarters still retain their Oriental appearance—gabled houses, narrow, crooked streets, and filth. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama He even made his own porridge in the wide-sounding kitchen of the gabled manse, on the hill above the harbour. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Wogan rode slowly through the narrow streets of gabled houses until he came to the market square. Clementina The May sunshine lay broad on the buttercup meadows, on the Christ Church elms, on the severe and blackened front of Corpus, on the long gabled line of Merton. Lady Connie Between the pinnacles of these buttresses rose the gabled ends of each of the chapels. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See The houses are gabled, and roofed with tiles or heavy thatch, presenting an appearance very suggestive of the picturesque towns and villages about Strasburg. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama A locality of dark, narrow streets with houses tall and gabled and holding as many families as possible. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Balliol has indeed ceased to be the "most satisfactory pile and range of old lowered and gabled edifices," which Nathaniel Hawthorne saw in the "fifties" of the last century. The Charm of Oxford Coming at last to the old-fashioned gabled house, where she had gone when site was a child, set in among stiff rows of evergreens. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Then the plain gabled roof of Morrison's came into view above a flat of young poplars, the silver leaves shivering in the breeze. The Lady of Big Shanty Standing beneath this arch one obtains a comprehensive view of the country below to the north; a pretty picture is presented of gabled villages and temples, green hills, and pale-gold ripening rice-fields. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Up the side of the dilapidated building ran a great wide stone chimney that reared its head through the gabled roof like a leaning Tower of Pisa. The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet The roof of such a building was either gabled and covered with tiles or, though perhaps less often, it was flat. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul Others were contented with very modest houses, consisting of one story with a gabled roof, and flanked by two massive chimneys. George Washington, Volume I The gabled spire is almost unique in this country and will awaken memories of Alsace for those who know that land. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End Then a tumult rages in my breast and I long to soar above these old pointed gabled roofs that cut off heaven from me. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes At the corner of the lane leading to the church is Beckington Castle, a fine old gabled house with mullioned windows. Somerset The roof is gabled and tiled, with ornaments along the eaves. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul It is said that the pinnacles on each side of the gabled back were formerly surmounted by two leopards, of which only small portions remain. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time The house stood a considerable distance back from the road: it was a gabled building of large size, and not without interest. Hodge and His Masters At the other end of the village a gabled inn, with a great stable-yard, busy with horses and waggons. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays The quaint wide street, with its gabled houses commanded at one end by the frowning heights of the castle, and overlooked at the other by a watch-tower, wears an air impressively mediaeval. Somerset In exceptional cases the hall had no opening in the ceiling and therefore no basin below, but was covered with a simple gabled roof which shed the rain-water into the street. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul Queen Elizabeth's hunting lodge, which adjoins the Forest Hotel at Chingford, is a restored three-storied and much gabled building, constructed of plastered brickwork and framed with oak. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association The Deanery, opposite the west door, is a quaintly charming building and the gabled King's House is said to date from the fourteenth century. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter There the gabled houses, with wooden galleries hanging over the waters of the Reuss, make a charming ancient picture, like a bit of Venice set down amid the verdant landscape of the valley. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 N. of the village, in the corner of a field near the main road, is what looks like a low gabled church tower, with a small E.E. chancel and some other out-buildings. Somerset The roofing, when constructed, as it most frequently was, in a gabled form, consisted of terra-cotta tiles arranged on a regular system. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul The steep street dropping down to the river Wey, with the great green slopes of the Hog's Back rising immediately beyond, framed in with quaint gabled fronts and projecting windows. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association Here, too, children are playing about under the shade of some delightful trees in the centre of the miniature square, whilst the variegated foliage sets off the gabled cottages which form three sides of it. A Cotswold Village The Town Hall was once a beautiful gabled building with a tall square tower ending in four little turrets. A Surgeon in Belgium Immediately adjoining the church on W. is a fine gabled Elizabethan manor house. Somerset Warriors slept whose hest was to guard the gabled hall, -- all save one. Beowulf In the close itself are the King's House and the King's Wardrobe, both old gabled houses of great beauty. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association The cottages, like the manor house and farm buildings, are all built of the native stone, and all are gabled and picturesque. A Cotswold Village The gabled fronts of the houses were richly blazoned or hung with scarlet cloth; it was a shifting scene of colour, life, and movement, and to Hilarius’ untutored eyes, wild confusion. Gathering of Brother Hilarius The manor house hard by is a handsome gabled modern mansion. Somerset The large and spacious houses, with their oriel, latticed windows, their huge fireplaces, and their gabled roofs, breathe of the days of hose and doublet, of pearl-embroidered stomachers, and complicated oaths. Three Men in a Boat This feature and the many quaint gabled houses give a charm to the place, making it attractive to all who love old architecture. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association And suddenly, as we ride along, a lovely valley is seen below: old-world farmhouses and gabled cottages come into view, nestling amid stately elms and beech trees already touched by autumn's hand. A Cotswold Village At the Grey or Franciscan Friars, the church followed the ordinary type in having two equal bodies, each gabled, with a continuous range of windows. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 At the hamlet of West Stoke is Parsonage Farm, originally a chantry house, where should be noticed the Tudor gateway, the hall, a gabled room surmounted by a bell-cot, and a circular columbarium. Somerset It fronted on a wide street where new business buildings rose beside gabled houses, detached and disconsolate in the midst of withered lawns. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Despite the varied turns of fortune's wheel, there are still many fine old gabled houses in Dartmouth, with overhanging upper stories rich in carved oak. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association Beyond the garden lay green fields and hedgerows; beyond the fields rose the line of wooded hill, and, embedded in trees, the grey and gabled front of Monk Lawrence. Delia Blanchflower He passed down the village street, and reached again the little gabled house which he had passed the night before. The Case of Richard Meynell It was his ambition, poor worm, to be a gentleman, as though a gabled roof and a crumbling house could ever make him that. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Again and again the grey gabled mass thrust itself upon her attention, recalling each time, against her will, the face of its owner. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I And I making no answer, as thinking it was but some sudden freak, he points out a black dirty-looking dwelling-place, with overhanging windows and a wide gabled roof. Birds of Prey He turned his eyes to the window and saw that they were passing an old manor house, with a gabled front, standing above the line, among trees. Delia Blanchflower The August night was hot and still; the shadows of the queer old gabled roofs were sharply defined upon the moonlit pavement. Henry Dunbar A Novel Many of these village churches date from the thirteenth century, and are alike picturesque within and without, their spires and gabled towers giving these leading characters to the landscape. Holidays in Eastern France The ice was still in the river, half the fall itself was frozen stiff, and reared in gabled arches to the sky. Crowded Out! and Other Sketches Facing the west end of the church, the most striking gabled front of the Maison Dieu forms part of one side of the open space. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 And the spot chosen for the execution was immediately in front of a very old and interesting shrine, with gabled roof, surmounted by a rude Gothic crucifix. Two Summers in Guyenne Lady Auriol, Colonel Lackaday and I, smitten with pagan revolt, lounged on the shady lawn in front of the red-brick, gabled manor house. The Mountebank She smoothed his pillows and patted his sheets, while Petticoat glanced at her a little suspiciously, from under his gabled eyebrows. Ptomaine Street Beyond is a long low light building, with curved and gabled roof of blue tiles, and three wooden steps before its entrance. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series It has not so many old gabled houses as Coventry, for example, but still enough to gratify an American appetite for the antiquities of domestic architecture. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Here before us rose the gabled grey front of the Tudor-time, developed and terraced and gardened to some later loss, as we were afterwards to know, of type. A Passionate Pilgrim The scherzo architecture of Villon's Paris, the gabled caprice of Shakespeare's London, the Rip Van Winkle jauntiness of a vanished New York, these are ghosts that wander among the skyscrapers and dynamo beltings of modernity. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago On the other side was the high garden wall, over which we caught dissolving views of dormer-windows, of gabled roofs, vine-clad walls, and a maze of peach and pear blossoms. In and out of Three Normady Inns Mrs. Olvord, a lady of means, built a small gabled cottage of wood, which, owing to ill health, she was able to occupy but a short time. Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs On one side was a line of squalid, quaint, gabled houses, on the other a long garden wall. Castilian Days There was but one bridge, but it was not Bunyan’s bridge, and many of the gabled houses still remained. The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White) The streets, crooked and narrow; the houses, many gabled, projecting, with latticed windows and diamond panes; without sidewalks; with rough pavements. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life One end, it is true, had a gabled end; there was also an old shrine niched in glass beneath the gable, and a low Norman gateway with rude letters carved over the arch. In and out of Three Normady Inns The elusive Grecian feeling of the Court of Palms comes in large part from the simple Ionic columns, and the lines of the gabled arches. The Jewel City They were gabled, with lattice windows, and picturesquely set off with projecting stones, and many little patchwork additions, such as, in the course of generations, the inhabitants had found themselves to need. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Much of our domestic architecture reflects their influence: the gabled fronts, the tiled fireplaces, the high "stoops," and the custom of sitting on them in summer evenings. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 It was a comely gabled edifice of red brick, with square bay-windows and a roomy porch. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales She climbed up the ladder to the little gabled loft which was her bedroom. Hidden Creek The pavilion combines the best in Swedish ecclesiastical and domestic architecture, the church tower and the gabled hall near the center, dwelling-house types at the ends. The Jewel City And between the courthouse and the cathedral, all around the square, stood the beautiful gabled houses with their multiplicity of adornments. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Close by, the gabled houses leaned out over the streets, planted fair upon sturdy timbers that grew in the olden time, all glorying among themselves upon their beauty. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories The corner nearest to the church is particularly noticeable on account of a most picturesque gabled house, with a timber-framed upper floor—a style of construction exceedingly rare in these parts of Yorkshire. Yorkshire—Coast and Moorland Scenes Farther than Millings had seemed from her old life did this dark little gabled attic seem from Millings. Hidden Creek There are ruins of curious gabled buildings, storehouses, “prisons,” or “monasteries,” perched here and there on well-nigh inaccessible crags above the village. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru When he came nearer the city, its walls and towers and high, gabled houses and churches stood there, perfectly black, against the light evening sky. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils It hath no heavy gabled roof, no door with lock and key, No window-bars shut out the stars, The aisles are wide and free— Here through the night each altar-light Is but a moon-beam, silver-white. The Miracle and Other Poems It was a very long house of two storeys, with a projecting gable and doorway in the middle, and at each end gabled wings running out crosswise. Moonfleet Above the west window rises a second and smaller triangular window in the gabled roof. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 It was a long, gabled building on the brink of the river, from whose low, grated windows the culprits could catch glimpses of the James, tumbling over its sedgy, sometimes rocky bed. The Iron Game A Tale of the War In one of the fairest of the West Indian islands a simple but elegant villa lifted its gabled roofs amidst a bewildering wealth of tropical beauty. A Beautiful Possibility At last he halted before a high, gabled house, cast one more glance out toward the town, and then passed into the hall. Immensee Houses, square and solid, with wide porticos; houses rising into many gabled peaks; houses that have swollen into all sorts of bay windows running up to the roof, or stopping with the first story. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Their white-washed, gabled fronts are ornamented with pilasters and decorative plaster-work, and these dignified, perfectly proportioned buildings seem in absolute harmony with their surroundings. Here, There and Everywhere The great height of the piers, the gabled roofs, the ribs of the vaults the pointed form of the windows, the towers, spires, and pinnacles,—all proclaim it. The Principles of Aesthetics One of these houses was even older, black-timbered, gabled, plastered, the sole remains, saving the church, of Eastthorpe as it was in the reign of Henry the Eighth. Catharine Furze But the older part of the town was closely and intricately built, with gabled roofs and heavy carved facades hanging over the narrow stone-paved ways, which here and there led out suddenly into open squares. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales The venta was on the ground-floor, and above it towered storey after storey, built with the quaint fantasy of the middle ages, and surmounted by a deep, overhanging gabled roof. In Kedar's Tents The foundry courtyard was surrounded by tall gabled houses, and of these the windows and balconies were already crowded with spectators. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch In the Transportation Palace can be seen a model of the proposed plan for a new Union Depot for Chicago, with a similar gabled effect. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition It had stood there for 150 years, gabled, red brick, and why it was put there nobody knew. Catharine Furze In the Grande Place, the antique, carven, gabled houses are gay with fluttering banners; the people delivered from the cruel invader sing lustily the Marseillaise and the old songs of Belgium. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales Heaven knows where the designers came from, but no two houses seem alike; some of them are gabled, buttressed, stone-mullioned, irregular in outline, but yet with a wonderful sense of proportion. The Upton Letters Then the grim western tower, with its sombre windows, the gabled roofs of the canonical houses, rise in picturesque masses over acres of white blossom. At Large It was all as happy and parochial as a "Hansi" picture, and the fine old gabled houses and clean cobblestone streets made the traditional setting for an Alsacian holiday. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort The girls were quite at home here, for the old doctor was Rose Ransome's mother's cousin, and through their childhood the little gabled house had been the favourite object of their walks. Martie, the Unconquered The river and its tiny craft, the little gabled houses of the neighbourhood, with a garden or two dropped in, tell delightfully in the general effect. Essays from 'The Guardian' The village itself of stone houses, no two alike, all with character; gabled, mullioned, weathered to a delicate ochre—some standing back, some on the street. The Upton Letters A little gabled, red-roofed house at the foot of some Sussex down, with fruit trees and a high hedge round it, and only the oast-houses peeping over. Australia Felix When she emerged again, the town had assumed that spectral look, which, towards evening, made the quaint old gabled streets so attractive. Maurice Guest Who does not know the air of complex multiplicity and the mysterious interesting grace which the moon always lends to old gabled buildings half-surrounded, as was the hospital, by fine trees! Barchester Towers Here I found a long and crowded thoroughfare with gabled houses on either side in which all kinds of trades were carried on. The Virgin of the Sun Christina Sorel awoke to a scene most unlike that which had been wont to meet her eyes in her own little wainscoted chamber high in the gabled front of her uncle's house. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest Also in the city beyond, houses, whole streets of them, gabled churches and tall towers, sank to the earth, while where they had been rose up wreathed columns of dust. Red Eve They trailed, Minna once more safely at her side, slowly on through the streets of the close-built peaked and gabled, carved and cobbled town. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled. The Four Million About this group of flat-faced cottages with gabled roofs the scent of hay, manure, and roses clung continually; just now the odour of the limes troubled its servile sturdiness. The Island Pharisees Half an hour's driving brought the company to the Manor House, a stately mansion, gabled and pointed like an ancient ch�teau on the Seine. The Golden Dog But never before had Bobby found, above such a rustic brook, a many chimneyed and gabled house of stone, set in a walled garden and swathed in trees. Greyfriars Bobby The gabled porch, with woodbine green, —The broken millstone at the sill, —Though many a rood might stretch between, The truant child could see them still. The Professor at the Breakfast-Table So Hallblithe passed on and came to the biggest house, the hall aforesaid: it was very long, and low as for its length, not over shapely of fashion, a mere gabled heap of stones. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men It is gloomy inside, yet outside it looks like a cottage: low, rambling, gabled, and picturesque. Put Yourself in His Place |
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