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  • This put them directly in front of the house they were seeking: a red brick Victorian affair with a white medallion at the gable's peak giving the date of construction: 1879, relatively new in an area where the oldest building had been erected nearly two hundred years earlier.

    A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

  • A sun-dial painted on the wall tells the time of day, and at the gable's sharpest point a saucy little angel with a trumpet in his mouth blows with the wind.

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • So it's not like poet Moore has nothing to work with. he stands beneath theater marquee staring into clark gable's face manhattan melodrama's the movie

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The windowsill of the upstairs gable's dormer leaned open and I leaned onto the windowsill and out into that Indian summer dusk in late September.

    Holy Experience 2010

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