A shed-roofed porch spans the gable-ended entry facade. ❋ Roger K. Lewis (2011)
The area on which it is possible to build is so circumcised and steep, and the unpainted gable-ended houses are so perched here and there, and the water rushes so impetuously among them, that it reminded me slightly of a Swiss town. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A very kind, sweet-voiced, smiling nun (I wonder, do they always choose the most agreeable and best-humored sister of the house to show it to strangers?) came tripping down the steps and across the flags of the little garden-court, and welcomed us with much courtesy into the neat little old-fashioned, red-bricked, gable-ended, shining-windowed Convent of the Angels. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was a queer sort of place — a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It is evident to the stranger, that as the gable-ended houses, which obtrude themselves corner-wise on the widening street, fall vacant, they are pulled down to allow of greater space for traffic, and a more modern style of architecture. ❋ Unknown (2002)
And as for the country legends, the stories of the old gable-ended farmhouses, the place where the last skirmish was fought in the civil wars, where the parish butts stood, where the last highwayman turned to bay, where the last ghost was laid by the parson, they're gone out of date altogether. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
The original Day in Poketown had built a shingled, gable-ended cottage upon the side-hill which had now, for numberless years, been called ❋ Helen Beecher Long (N/A)
Clumsy, gable-ended houses, streets narrow and crooked, a wretched pavement -- such is the city. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was broad, spacious, and is still overlooked by many a tall and gable-ended mansion, whose antique and massive aspect announces that, like other Fifeshire burghs before the Union in the preceding year, it had seen better days. ❋ Various (N/A)
Lea Hurst, a gable-ended house, standing among its own woods and commanding wonderful views of the Peak country, is about two miles from Cromford station. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Next they threw out a short gable-ended wing to the east, and another to the west, enclosing a pleasant courtyard on the south. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
A square Tudor building with two short, gable-ended wings, thrown out at right angles to its front; three friendly grey walls enclosing a little courtyard made golden all day long with sunshine from the south. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
Not one young man in twenty knows where to find the wood-sorrel, or the bee-orchis; still fewer can tell the country legends, the stories of the old gable-ended farmhouses, or the place where the last skirmish was fought in the Civil ❋ Unknown (1892)
It is an ugly, gable-ended ruin, and looks like the shell of a small church. ❋ Unknown (1873)
Waimakiriri, and a few yards from its edge stood a picturesque gable-ended little cottage surrounded by a rustic fence, which enclosed a strip of garden gay with common English spring flowers, besides more useful things, potatoes, etc. ❋ Unknown (1871)
At the south corner of the square there is a quaint red-brick, gable-ended house, with a bit of rusticated woodwork. ❋ Walter Besant (1868)
'Oh! the pleasant days, when men built houses after their own minds, and wrote their own devices on the walls, and none laughed at them; when little wooden knights and saints peeped out from the angles of gable-ended houses, and every street displayed a store of imaginative wealth.' ❋ Henry Blackburn (1863)
The narrow winding streets of gable-ended houses, with their strange histories, will soon be forgotten by all but the antiquary; for there is ❋ Henry Blackburn (1863)
