Gables
[ɡeiblz]
Examples
- The quality of hotels is shown by an inn with one, two, three, or four gables, and so forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Red Gables, Catherine Street. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- From amid the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a very old mansion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Glenmont is a rather elaborate and florid building in Queen Anne English style, of brick, stone, and wooden beams showing on the exterior, with an abundance of gables and balconies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The cathedral towers and the full gables of the quaint old houses were just beginning to blush in the sunrise. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The openings at the gables perform an important part in the ventilation by admitting all the air that can sweep over the top sawdust. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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