| 单词 | gambrel roof |
| 例句 | Its sides—clad in weather-beaten shingles and inset with a series of large windows—slanted obliquely inward, rising toward a gambrel roof. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Impress your friends with your knowledge of gambrel roofs and Italianate porches. 19 big holiday book gift ideas: mystery, history and local titles 2013-12-13T20:53:23Z In the evenings, it glows like a lantern, becoming a beacon of sorts for boaters on Smith Lake.Originally, their home was a 1970s barnlike cabin defined by a high-pitched, gambrel roof. Lake House in the Trees 2013-06-17T05:20:04.363Z Great room, dining room, screened porches, Dutch barn gambrel roof, detached garage with guest apartment. Inside the Beltway: The hair-raising cost of socialism 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The owner of a longtime Summerland antiques barn had died, and the "historically delightful" 1921 structure — complete with gambrel roof and grounds with potential — was available. Hit the road: Garde opens second outpost in coastal town of Summerland, Calif. 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z River view, sitting porch with four Ionic columns, gambrel roof, two chimneys. Americans don’t trust the ‘lying’ media, cite unethical behavior 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Set at the end of a cul-de-sac, a gambrel roof, old stone chimney and tall trees peep above a high white fence and guard house. The Clintons of Chappaqua: it's Hillary's home turf, but Bill still shines 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z His later barns made a dramatic departure from the earlier ones: They were narrower but proportionately taller, with upward-stretched gambrel roofs that flared at the eaves. Retired banker on mission to turn Idaho barn into museum 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Next month, he will move to an apartment in a wood-frame house with a gambrel roof in Stapleton; he and a roommate will divide the rent of $1,400 a month. Staten Island’s Turning Point? 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Dairy barns with the gambrel roofs, roof dormers and multiple windows are common. Owners work to preserve wooden barns, heritage 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z It is a great, square, wooden structure of two stories, with added attic rooms beneath an overwhelming gambrel roof, which is the conspicuous feature of the edifice and contributes to its antique form. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z In the meantime changes had been going on under our old gambrel roof, and the Garden had been suffered to relapse slowly into a state of wild nature. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Two large windows, one in each end of the gambrel roof, afforded light and air. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z In the rear of this building, fronting on Union Street, is the plain, two-story-and-a-half house, with a gambrel roof, where Hawthorne was born. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Later came the more pretentious hall, typical of the gambrel roof house, that enjoyed so long a period of popularity. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z It is a plain, uninviting, eight-roomed structure, with a lower addition at the back, and with a square central chimney-stack rising like a tower above the gambrel roof. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z It was not until 1700 that the gambrel roof came into style. Remodeled Farmhouses Beyond the tracks, high up on the mountain slope, he thought he spied, well-nigh hid from sight by the pines, the gambrel roof of a large building—or was it a snow-covered rock? The Mountain Girl It has a gambrel roof, and is on the left when the train is going westward. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. It came up into a kindly gambrel roof and there were dormers. The Prisoner Our old settlers made steep gambrel roofs to shed the rain. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Over to the left the moon was peeping above a gambrel roof and the near side was steely blue up to the shadow of the purple chimney. Stubble The next roof-form, built from early colonial days, and popular a century ago, was what was known as the gambrel roof. Home Life in Colonial Days Curb Roof.—A roof having a double slope, or composed on each side of two parts which have unequal inclinations; a gambrel roof. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations It was two storied with a high gambrel roof making in effect a third story. Confessions of Boyhood The gambrel roof is shingled, descends low and has dormer windows. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 The Flathead Indian squeezes the child's skull between two boards till it shapes itself into a kind of gambrel roof against the rain,—the readiest way, perhaps, of uniforming a tribe that wear no clothes. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays The gambrel roof had a certain grace of outline, especially when joined with lean-tos and other additions. Home Life in Colonial Days It is a low building, with a gambrel roof and a huge chimney. Not Pretty, but Precious Presently they entered the broad street of an old town, where houses with gambrel roofs and quaint porches neighbored in quiet dignity with towered mansions and verandaed bungalows. Polly and the Princess There was also a much blurred photograph of the fine old farm-house, from which it was difficult to deduce much except that it had a gambrel roof. The Happy Venture Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases It has a gambrel roof and overlooks the river. The Unspeakable Gentleman The quaint barrack building, with its huge chimneys and gambrel roof, is now occupied by several families; and a whitewashed fence encloses a gay garden. Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline" The house itself is very old, with little windows and a gambrel roof, and a well-sweep in the rear. Polly and the Princess It is a square wooden edifice, with gambrel roof and deep-set window-frames. The Story of a Bad Boy Whenever you see a house with a gambrel roof, you may be almost positive that the house is at least a hundred years old, for the gambrel roof went out of fashion after the Revolution. An Old Town By the Sea And the house—I had often pictured that house in my memory—with its great arched doorway, its small-paned windows and its gambrel roof. The Unspeakable Gentleman The Stavers inn has the regulation gambrel roof, but is lacking in those wood ornaments which are usually seen over the doors and windows of the more prominent houses of that epoch. An Old Town By the Sea |
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