While Captain Hardy was speeding back to Manhattan to consult the secret service men, the two young scouts made their way to a turn of the road whence they could barely see a gable of the house on the cliff.
Henry was in the attic gable on watch and he promptly notified his comrades.
We drove by the small old house at the left, with its double gable and pretty grass garden, and trim yews and modern lilacs and laburnums, backed by the grand timber of the park.
It is generally surrounded by pillars, is roofed, and has a low gableat each end.
Passing between these and by the gable of the college library, a view is obtained of the Master's lodge and of the west front of the chapel with its heavy inappropriate tower.
The mound at the foot of the gable contained the body of one who had shown him kindness.
Dot, doesn't he look just like Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind?
At the highest point of the building, immediately under the sharp angle of the roof, in the gable and nearest to view, was a solitary window.
A fine statue of the Virgin will be noticed in the eastern gable of the nave.
Under the stone eagle that surmounts the centre gable is the date 1630.
The extended boards at bottom, and the gable roof are provided to prevent the battery from being tipped over; extensions of sides for carrying.
No one was hurt, however, and the broken gable of a clay 'bigging' was not a thing beyond repair.
Shortly afterwards, as if to begin the fulfillment of the carline's prophecy, the storm, rising higher and higher, at length blew down a gable of the dwelling.
Hunter arrived at the house shortly afterwards and at once began to shout and bully because the painting of the gable was not yet commenced.
Philpot returned to the small gable he had been painting before breakfast, which he had not quite finished.
They carried the ladder into the garden and laid it on the ground along the side of the house where the gable was.
Poor old Joe Philpot, whose rheumatism had been very bad lately, was doing a very rough job--painting the gable from a long ladder.
Ere it's nearly ten o'clock and we ain't made a start on this gable wot we ought to 'ave started first thing this morning.
The building is in the form of a Greek cross with four projecting gableends and an octagonal cupola of graceful design and proportions at the center of the roof.
Most Philadelphia houses, whether gable or hip-roofed, have dormers to light the attic.
For example, one immediately notes the mutulary Doric cornice and frieze along the sides, and the pulvinated Ionic entablature across the chancel gable above the Palladian window.
A great, square two and a half story house with a gable roof, three handsome dormers in front, a goodly sized chimney toward either end, and an L in the rear, it speaks eloquently of substantial comfort.
Unlike most houses of the time and locality, it has a double front with two windows each side of a central doorway, a range of five windows on the second and third floors and three simple dormers in the gable roof above.
A splendid example of the gable roof or pedimental porch more typical of Philadelphia architecture is that at Upsala.
From the broad window-ledge to the slate tank was an easy drop, and from the tank they lowered themselves to a gravelled pathway that led around this gable of the house.
This gable of the house fronted a steep coombe, which doubtless wound its way to the sea, since far to the right a patch of sea shone beyond a notch in the enfolding slopes.
On the eastern face of the gable bute were two transverse seams of what appeared to be crystallized quartz.
On the western side of the stream which we were following down, were a collection of butes or conical peaks clustered around one, the top of which was somewhat in the form of the gable end of an ancient church.
The birds had deposited numbers of acorns in the gable end.
Our brick house, two stories in height, was entirely covered on a broad gable end, the branches more than gaining the top.
An ordinary block and tackle can be utilized either through an outside door in the gable of the roof or through a hole in the floor in the interior of the building.
The height of the walls should be not less than 10 feet, which with the gable roof will make the building a little more attractive in appearance than the one previously described.
On these are set 2x6 rafters supporting a double pitched gable roof.
The roof may be of almost any style from the simple single pitch shed roof to the modified shed roof or the ordinary double pitch gable roof.
From the gable window of a house in the Rue des Tres Pigeons, a girl had sat the livelong day, looking, looking into the court-room.
Above them all, at a hus in the gable of a thatched cottage, stood the girl whom the Chevalier had recognised, anxiously watching the affray.
The street having been widened about forty years ago, the front gable was now precisely on a line with it.
Turning quickly, she was surprised at sight of a young man, who had found access into the garden by a door opening out of another gablethan that whence she had emerged.
It has already been observed, that, in the basement story of the gable fronting on the street, an unworthy ancestor, nearly a century ago, had fitted up a shop.
In another place there is a tiny court, with an indescribable medley of steps, grey stone, worn beams, gable ends, and child life.
Here a thatched gable projects like a huge hood; there black darkness shows a tiny court.
At last the ne'er-do-well appeared from his gable end, dragging the unfortunate red foxy dog at the end of a taut chain.
She walked straight towards the gableend of the lodge, wondering how she should attract his attention and bring him to the window.
That slim, muscular youth with the high collar and light yellow gaiters, sitting on the outside of one of the windows at the gable end, while he coaxed a red puppy on a leash to climb his knee--who was he?
Jake pulled him by the sleeve toward the road, and pointed to the low gable of the little parsonage under the elms on the hill beyond the meeting-house.
It is curiously decorated with Sussex tiles, and has an ivy-clad gable and long window in stained cathedral glass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
