Here stood that elaborate dwelling of the Knickerbockers, regarded as the best specimen of old Dutch architecture in New York State, the "Vanderheyden Palace," an extensive building with two tall gablesfacing the street.
The old house with its quaint Dutch gables became in time the castle of Baltus Van Tassel, and being held by Jacob Van Tassel, an active American partisan during the Revolution, the British sacked and burned it.
A visit to Green Gableswas always considered a great treat.
The only surprise in The House of the Seven Gables consists in the revelation of the fact that Maule reappears after several generations in the person of his modern descendant.
At last Manhattan, with its girdle of silver waters, its gables and its overhanging trees, met her eager look.
A welcome to the homestead-- The gables and the trees; And welcome to the true hearts, As the sunshine and the breeze.
Malaeska had been out many days, when the sharp gables and the tall chimneys of Manhattan broke upon her view, surrounded by the sheen of its broad bay, and by the forest which covered the uninhabited part of the island.
That night the very last rafter in the Wickiup gables rang with his cry.
Not the fact that the crazy old gables can boast the storm and stress of the mad railroad life of another day than this--for every deserted curve and hill of the line can do as much.
It faces the Roemerberg, and its three pointed gables give it a picturesque appearance.
We expected to see the mountains dotted all over with those beautiful houses, all gables and dormer windows, picturesquely painted in all sorts of gay colors, such as we see in the theaters.
And suddenly, there, o'er the gablesblack That the church, in the twilight, around it raises All scored with lightnings the steeple blazes.
Or yonder house amid its gables light, And garden, that so blest a sky controls, Weaving the climate dear to both our souls.
See the dear house among its gables light, And the green garden, and the orchard there!
If I had simply pretended to be telephoning, the people at the exchange could have told you at once that there hadn't been a call from White Gables that night.
As I drove back to White Gables my design took shape before me with a rapidity and ease that filled me with a wild excitement.
I am going down the road to White Gables at once, and I dare say I shall be poking about there until mid-day.
Some of these things have to be put back where they belong in somebody's bedroom at White Gables before night.
You were planning to go to White Gables before the inquest, I think," remarked Trent to Mr. Cupples as they finished their breakfast.
This was to be held, I knew, at the hotel, and I reckoned upon having White Gables to myself so far as the principal inmates were concerned.
He could see now, beyond a spacious lawn and shrubbery, the front of the two-storied house of dull red brick, with the pair of great gables from which it had its name.
The chests of gold that have been taken from Gray Gables since the fire are all mine, you know, my father's property, but the house belonged to that wicked old man, and the property will bring you a good sum.
More than six weeks had elapsed since Nita and Lizette had left Gray Gables for the yachting excursion with Dorian Mountcastle that had resulted so disastrously.
Heedless of the warring elements, and with his heart on fire with pain, he trudged on toward his hotel, not caring to claim the hospitality of Gray Gables in his present drenched condition.
Donald Kayne watched the funeral procession winding its solemn way along the sands, then rode on to Gray Gables to see the Courtneys.
Things are different now, Jack," she answered in a troubled tone, and when he questioned her she told him the story of the night when the old miser had brought Nita to Gray Gables as his ward.
When she was taken to Gray Gables some glimmerings of memory returned to her, but she did not remember that it was the fatal tenth of June.
Van Hise told Nita frankly that as the widow of Charles Farnham, Gray Gables was her own property, and she ought to turn the Courtneys out.
He claims her now, and all you can do is to let her go back up yonder to Gray Gables and queen it over us again," she ended bitterly.
I should be sorry to think so, for in that case I should feel compelled to leave Gray Gables immediately, and be jolted five miles to the nearest hotel," he rejoined maliciously.
He followed the miser almost to the gate of Gray Gables with a stealthy, sullen stride, then, suddenly, flung himself on him with resistless fury, and bore him down to the ground.
Up at Gray Gables lights flashed from all the windows, and rumor said that the travelers had come home.
As they walked toward Gray Gables they met Mrs. Courtney and her daughter promenading on the sands.
It had many pointed gables and quaint turrets and mullioned windows, overlooking a garden in which there were arbours for love-in-idleness where ladies had dreamed awhile on many summer days in the great yesterday of history.
When I passed it, after the Germans had gone that way, the gables and the turrets had fallen down, and instead of mullioned windows there were gaping holes in blackened walls.
This old building, with its high gables and pointed roofs, holds the memory of many great chapters in French history.
The cathedral has a highly elaborate Gothic facade, but the details of the upper part are unsatisfactory--a square window in the centre shocks the eye, and the gables are not slim and aspiring enough.
Rows of squalid houses, with wooden gables 300 years old, looked down upon canals choked up with slime and filth.
In the Grande Place, as in the Grande Place of Brussels, were other guild houses, distinguished by their quaint gables and towering facades, each the home of some great corporation.
The Place du Musee is a quiet corner of the town, where a Gothic house with double gables contains a collection of old paintings, medals, instruments of torture, and some other curiosities.
The Market-Place seems to lose its modern aspect when seen from above; and all round there is nothing visible but houses with high-pointed gables and red roofs, intersected by canals, and streets so narrow that they appear to be mere lanes.
Kinloch Houran Castle stands out of the very waters of Loch Houran, with its ruined gablesand towers clothed with ivy.
Opposite to this was the mainland which at that spot formed a little bay, thickly wooded with the dark green of the fir woods, amid which appeared the gables of a sort of ornamental cottage.
Behind them, with the gables of its houses already threatened by the encroaching waves of sand, nestled the little village of Lis-op-Zee.
The four sides are lined by beautiful old houses whose decorated fronts and elaborate gables tell of the Renaissance and of Spanish days.
The Hotel de Ville is an elaborately decorated building, with two exquisite gables and a steep roof surmounted by a little octagonal tower.
Here and there we passed the ivy-clad turret of an old castle or the peaked gables of a rambling country house, protruding from amongst the trees and marking the country seat of some family of repute.
Looking back, the high turrets and gables of the Boteler wing stood out dark and threatening against the starlit sky.
Within our beds awhile we heard The wind that round the gables roared, With now and then a ruder shock, Which made our very bedsteads rock.
Thatched were the roofs, with dormer-windows; and gables projecting Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway.
By degrees she had related to him in a quaintly solemn tone, stories of the lives which had passed under the pointed gables of this roof.
She moved aside into the deepest shadow and gazed down into the valley; the old house stood there safe and sound, the red light of the dying flames played about its green ivy-wreathed gables and lighted up the shrubs in the garden.
Directly opposite were the gables of the Rathhaus; like airy lace-work, the rich ornamentation of the towers was marked out against the glowing evening sky.
The eye glanced over the green lawn, past the magnificent trees to the quaint old dwelling-house with its high gables and its ivy-grown walls.
He sat down in the little porch under the clustering vines; the picturesque street, with its carved gables and tasteful balconies, sloped gently down to the Rhine, which ran in swift eddies beneath.
It was a little wing with three gables to the front, the ancient framework, of black oak, quaintly ornamented with many a tasteful device and grim decoration.
The cottage was a little quaint place of many rough-cast gables and grey roofs.
When the gables of the cottage rose into view over the hill's shoulder I dismissed my driver and walked forward, whistling the tune; but fell silent as I came under the lee of the garden wall, and sought for the exact spot of my old escalade.
The gables are of wood or metal, and curve upwards at the ends into a peculiar ornament, which is so common in civil as well as religious architecture as to cause much speculation as to its meaning.
So many of the native houses with their quaintgables and double or triple roofs have been pulled down, and brick ones of European pattern erected instead, that scarcely any purely native street remains.
Along the river bank, nestling under the hanging wood, are rows of old stone cottages, with gables warped a little on one side.
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