637 examples of gable in sentences

The walls of cotton-wood logs soared upward to a level of six feet, and this height was magnificently increased in the middle by the angle of the mildly gable roof.

I see, well up in the angle of the broad side gable, shaded by its rude awning of clapboards, as the eyes of an old dame are shaded by her wrinkled hand, the window of Pauline.

The sun surged through the kitchen door and east window, a returned oriole swung and fluted on the elm above the gable.

Architecturally the chapel is nothing; and if it were not for a few tall front rails, painted green, a good gable end pointed up, and a fairly cut inscription thereon, it would, ecclesiastically speaking, seem less than nothing.

In front there are several pointed windows, a small circular hole above for birds' nests, two doorways with a window between them, a central surmounting gable, and a couple of feathery-headed perforated turrets, one being used as a chimney, and the other as a belfry.

The building is a high, narrow, but vast, barrack-looking edifice, built of the ferruginous stone of the region, having its gable placed toward the Valais, and its front stretching in the direction of the gorge in which it stands.

CHAPTER XIX MISS PANNEY IS "TOOK SUDDEN" "I have spoken to Mr. Ames about it," said Dr. Tolbridge to Miss Panney, as two days later they were sitting together in his office, "and we are both agreed that teachers in Thorbury are like the vines on the gable ends of our church; they are needed there, but they do not flourish.

The smallest cottage has at least two of these fire-irons, one upon each gable; houses of more pretensions are provided with an indefinite number; and the big white church has its purple roof so bristled with them, that the pause which a flash of lightning must necessarily make before deciding by which of them to come down must enable any tolerably active person to get out of the way in good time.

Not a cottage is in sight that is not worthy of the painter's brush; not a gable or a chimney that would not be worthy of a place in the Royal Academy.

There is no tower without its spire, no turret or gable without its pinnacle, no oriel without its pointed roof, no dormer without some such playful leaping up into the air.

Each separate face of their towers, whether these towers were square or octangular, ended above in a gable; and from these gables, in various ways, arose the octangular pointed roof or spire.

In the middle of the nave, nearer the main door than the altar, is a deal coffin with gable-shaped lid, barely covered by a pall.

The two gable ends (in which were the windows and doors) were of sod.]

On entering the old-fashioned quadrangle, surrounded by stables and other officesbuilt in the antique cagework fashionthey stopped for a while under the shadow of the inn gable, and looked round the yard, and listened.

GABLE, J. HARRIS. Boys' book of astronomy.

J. Harris Gable (A); 5Dec57; R204165. GABRIELLO, pseud.

SWEZEY, GOODWIN DELOSS. Boys' book of astronomy, by Goodwin Deloss Swezey and J. Harris Gable.

J. Harris Gable (A); 10Jul57; R194851. SWIFT, JONATHAN.

By Jacob Harris Gable, drawings & sketches by Allen Kennedy, with the assistance of Claude Pilger.

J. Harris Gable (A); 10Nov76; R645925.

Twice a week or more in those five weeks he had to pass the little gray house above the churchyard; twice a week or more the small shy window in its gable end looked sidelong at him as he went by.

The solid Dutch houses, with their gable ends to the street, stood every one on its own lawn, with a garden behind it.

The walls of the lower story entirely of stone, and the upper, stone and plaster intersected by wood, are original, as is probably the enriched gable, with the pinnacled ornament at its apex; beneath was originally a small bay window, which has been stopped up: the other gable, it is reasonable to conclude, once possessed similar enrichments.

The walls of the lower story entirely of stone, and the upper, stone and plaster intersected by wood, are original, as is probably the enriched gable, with the pinnacled ornament at its apex; beneath was originally a small bay window, which has been stopped up: the other gable, it is reasonable to conclude, once possessed similar enrichments.

A glimpse of gable roof and red chimneys add (adds) far more to the beauty of such a scene than could the grandest palace.

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